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Harvest Quotes
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Once more the liberal year laughs out

Once more with harvest song and shout

- J. G. Whittier Harvest Hymn.

Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,
Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor;
From thence a length of burning sand appears,
Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears;
Rank weeds, that every art and care defy,
Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye:
There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar,
And to the ragged infant threaten war;
There poppies nodding, mock the hope of toil;
There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil;
Hardy and high, above the slender sheaf,
The slimy mallow waves her silky leaf;
O'er the young shoot the charlock throws a shade,
And clasping tares cling round the sickly blade.
- George Crabbe 1754-1832 The Village bk. i, 1. 63

I struck the board and cried, "No more;

What, shall I ever sigh and pine?
My lines and life are free, free as the road,
Loose as the wind, as large as store.
Shall I be still in suit?
Have I no harvest but a thorn
To let me blood, and not restore
What I have lost with cordial fruit?

Before my sighs did dry it; there was corn
Before my tears did drown it.
Is the year only lost to me?
Have I no bays to crown it?
- George Herbert The Collar

The harvests of Arretium,

This year, young boys in Umbro

And in the vats of Luna,

Round the white feet of laughing girls

- Lord Macaulay 1800-1859