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Farm Legends

Chapter 4: ILLUSTRATIONS.
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A collection of poems and short verse sketches portraying rural life and its communities, alternating wry humor with sincere pathos as it records schoolroom scenes, farm characters, local rituals, college memories, and civic commemorations. Several pieces confront sudden disasters and personal bereavement while others offer hopeful reflection and moral admonition; occasional stanzas address public figures and scientific achievement. The work emphasizes dignity in humble lives and the small ironies of human nature, arranging its material into narrative ballads, elegies, commemorative poems, and lighter stray stanzas.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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"They stood in the Shade of the western Door" Frontispiece
"A Class in the Front, with their Readers, were telling, with difficult Pains" 19
"And nodded obliquely, and muttered, 'Them 'ere is my Sentiments tew'" 23
"When grave Baw Beese, the Indian Chief, had beaded the Neck of the pale-face Miss" 27
"Hiding e'en from the Dark his Face" 35
"E'en in your Desolation you are not quite unblest" 37
"Himself on the Door-stone idly sitting" 41
"He runs and stumbles, leaps and clambers" 45
Rob, the Pauper 50
"And Bess said, 'Keep still, for there's Plenty of Room'" 55
"Several Times he, with Policy stern, repressed a Desire to break out of the Churn" 57
"And there his plump Limbs through the Orifice swung" 59
"Alice, the country Maiden, with the sweet loving Face" 65
"My Boy! come in! come in!" 71
"The Mother, who carries the Key to Thomas' Heart" 74
"I threw them as far as I could throw" 78
The Christmas Baby 80,  81,  82,  83
"They who in Mountain and Hill-side and Dell" 90
"And does Columbia love her dead?" 93
"When a Man throws the Treasures of his Life" 97
"E'en when was fixed, with far-resounding strokes" 109
"How happy are We!" 119
"'Twas a bright, glorious March! full of Joys that were New" 123
"And loudly wild Accents of Terror came pealing from Thousands of Throats" 141
Ship "City of Boston" 147
Some Time 157
"With the World, Flesh, and—Lad of General Work" 171
"The Public Heart's Prime-ministers are We" 179

Farm Legends.


FARM LEGENDS.