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He rose and said in a deep voice: "He sows ill luck who hinders the reaper." Mr. Wright hung his sickle on a small tree in the dooryard and answered. "The plowman has overtaken the reaper, Mr. President. I bid you welcome to my humble home." "It is a pleasure to be here and a regret to call you back to Washington," said the President as they shook hands.
"The people of the provinces," says a contemporary, "are not up to the level of the Revolution; it opposes old habits and customs and the resistance of inertia to innovations which it does not understand." "The plowman is an estimable man," writes a missionary representative, "but he is generally a poor patriot."
They will be little ones, but we are little people. I want no glory here or hereafter that Jamie cannot share. I gave God a plowman, but your father says I must chalk half of that to his account. Hold tight the handles and plow deep. We watch the candle and every wee spark thrills our hearts, for we know it's a letter from you. "Your loving mother."
The landscape did glimmer, and as I watched the sun go down, I pleased myself with the fancy that I was sitting just where the poet sat, as he revolved those lines which the world has got by heart. Just then came the cry of the cattle, and I knew why Gray wrote: "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea," nor did I fail to encounter a plowman homeward plodding his weary way.
All this seemed very wonderful to me, giving the impression that I had been a skillful plowman all my life without knowing it.
"Aye," I said, "I had just been appointed missionary to a place called the Bowery, in New York, and I wrote her that I was no longer her plowman, but her fisher of men." "Och, maan, if ye cud haave heard her laugh over th' different kinds ov fishes ye wor catchin'! Iv'ry day for weeks she read it an' laughed an' cried over it.
He lived to be a hundred, and never lost his sight nor used spectacles. He got on horseback without help, and rode to the death of the stag till he was past fourscore. The plain country fellow, plowman, or clown, is several pegs lower, and described by Bishop Earle as one that manures his ground well, but lets himself lie fallow and untitled. His hand guides the plow, and the plow his thoughts.
Chatting as they walked, they saw a plowman, who turned a furrow as he came towards them. "See here, my good man," said the First Consul, stopping him, "your furrow is not straight. You do not know your business." "It is not you, my fine gentleman, who can teach me. You cannot do as well.
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground! 25. When lie hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? 26. For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. 27.
This fact shows how thoroughly the French element had become incorporated in the speech of all classes. The style of the author of Piers Plowman is, however, remarkable for the old Saxon sincerity and for the realistic directness of the bearer of a worthy message. John Gower. Gower, a very learned poet, was born about 1325 and died in 1408.
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