by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Under Thee only they harvest ‑‑ even but...
Language: English
Under Thee only they harvest -- even but a wisp of hay, under thy great face, only; Harvest the wheat of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin -- every barbed spear, under thee; Harvest the maize of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee -- each ear in its light-green sheath, Gather the hay to its myriad mows, in the odorous, tranquil barns, Oats to their bins -- the white potato, the buckwheat of Michigan, to theirs; Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama -- dig and hoard the golden, the sweet potato of Georgia and the Carolinas, Clip the wool of California or Pennsylvania, Cut the flax in the Middle States, or hemp, or tobacco in the Borders, Pick the pea and the bean, or pull apples from the trees, or bunches of grapes from the vines, Or aught that ripens in all These States, or North or South, Under the beaming sun, and under Thee.
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Confirmed with Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Philadelphia: David McKay, c1900.
Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), no title, appears in Leaves of Grass, in A Carol of Harvest, for 1867, no. 13 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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