• Clear the brown path to meet his coulter’s gleam!
    Lo! on he comes, behind his smoking team,
    With toil’s bright dew-drops on his sunburnt brow,
    The lord of earth, the hero of the plough!

    First in the field before the reddening sun,
    Last in the shadows when the day is done,
    Line after line, along the bursting sod,
    Marks the broad acres...