THE INHERITORS.
The hill that shelters Chester Lifts cornfields to the sun, Where men go out to harvest When day has new begun, And hear across at Peapack The merry morning sounds Where men ride redcoat down the hill Behind the baying hounds. From Peapack and from Chester The eastward view is far To where, behind the Mendham hills, The bright sunrises are, And black against the red sky, On foul days or fair, The white spire of Mendham Calls good folk to prayer. To-day’s men at Chester Will sleep full sound When sorts of their getting Sow grain above ground; And proud men at Peapack Will wind the bright horn That now calls their sires up, And they not born. And he is not born yet Whose father to-day Has left quiet Mendham For quieter clay, Covered by good folk With turf unblest, Alone, till his grown son Wishes rest. —By Richard V. Lindabury, in Scribner’s.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3899, 4 December 1928, Page 71
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157THE INHERITORS. Otago Witness, Issue 3899, 4 December 1928, Page 71
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