THE REAPERS.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 90, 30 March 1876, Page 3

THE REAPERS.

The roap'srs/bend their dusky backs ; The sounding Sickles sway ; .. At every stroke the gohlen sea Recedes to give them way ; - The heavy enrp fall bowiag down, And nestle at their feet : Such will, such work as theirs perforce Must win— must. homage meet. Sp"cai-eless of f&tiglie they, go, •'" ••So'true, so 1 ' • '• • - Hie admiruig traveller on the road Leans o'er the gate to see, ;; , '7^^ WfX* 1 ;^ Me.sopiyMQn -^'sadth, Tlie lotigirig gossips tell ; ' ' '" But the reapers labor for us all, — . ; ".' 'Tisi.need'they should .work 'wpll. ' Fre; that. great sun. that burns above - , Shall crimson in the west, An'd'the Children's poppy nosegay faide, .Aud4hey lie down. to rest* . ■ Fach golden spear that upward points ■ A-- -Shall fall' upon the field;* / ; i ( And .tl^e farmer drains a sparkling glass, : ' Rejoicihgf <xer the yield. " ' ''' ' Ply, bonnie men, your siokles_bright, : ' -And give-- the people.^brejad F At every conquering stride" you take, '-•■ -Oh want and' woe yoif tread. Drop, heavy ears, and giVfrthe strength ' Tousgatbprodj from this plain; That man may rise so freSiHaii^rm, And do great, tliitjgs^gain;, ».- God bless the hands, all-hard and brown., .That guiderthe-cleaving plough, '* '•'' Tliat cast abroad ihe shining seSd, '' -a And build the"^wealthy mow : They, r Jar the bread our children ea^.;) —^T-is-by-their-toil-wdlivej-. « „ ' ,; • Hurra&l giva:them this loudest ohp§r," That grateful hearts can give. »jf .. '