Ploughman Singing
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ere morning in the ploughman's songs is met Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet, Shows not her sleeve of grey to know her bye.Woke early, I arose and thought that first In winter time of all the world was I.The old owls might have hallooed if they durst, But joy just then was up and whistled byeA merry tune which I had known full long, But could not to my memory wake it back,Until the ploughman changed it to the song. O happiness, how simple is thy track.--Tinged like the willow shoots, the east's young browGlows red and finds thee singing at the plough.
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