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Posted by Chris(WA) on December 26, 2005 at 11:31:34 from (204.182.70.237):
In Reply to: All right guys and gals, I need a poetical favor posted by Specter on December 26, 2005 at 10:26:41:
This is one I found somewhere, Might have been here! Hope it is not one you already have! The tractor on the farm arose Before the dawn at four; It milked the cows and washed the clothes, And finished every chore. Then forth it went into the field Just at the break of day; It reaped and threshed the golden grain And hauled it all away. It plowed the field that afternoon, And when the job was through, It hummed a pleasant little tune And churned the butter, too: And pumped the water for the stock, And ground a crib of corn; And hauled the baby round the block To still its cries forlorn. Thus ran the busy hours away, By many a labor blest; And yet when fell the twilight gray The tractor had no rest. For while the farmer, peaceful-eyed, Read by the tungsten glow, The patient tractor stood outside And ran the dynamo. 1918-Originally published in the Kansas City Star
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