. Around an old homestead; a book of memories. Huston, Paul Griswold; Farm life; Natural history. Fling wide the grain; we give tiie fields The ears that nod in summer's gale. The shining stems that summer gilds. The harvest that o'erflows the vale, And swells, an amber sea, between The full-leaved woods, its shores of green. Hark! from the murmuring clods I hear Glad voices of the coming year; The song of him who binds the grain, The shout of those that load the wain. And from the distant grange there comes The clatter of the thresher's flail. And steadily the millstone hums Down in
. Around an old homestead; a book of memories. Huston, Paul Griswold; Farm life; Natural history. Fling wide the grain; we give tiie fields The ears that nod in summer's gale. The shining stems that summer gilds. The harvest that o'erflows the vale, And swells, an amber sea, between The full-leaved woods, its shores of green. Hark! from the murmuring clods I hear Glad voices of the coming year; The song of him who binds the grain, The shout of those that load the wain. And from the distant grange there comes The clatter of the thresher's flail. And steadily the millstone hums Down in the willowy ; —Bryant. HE term harvest, as it Is generally under- stood in the country, is limited to the time when the ripened grain is cut and gar- nered into the barns. Yet the real harvest lasts longer than that. The berry season and haying ^Es- immediately precede and often accompany the reaping of the grain, and we are surely still getting in our crops when we pick the last apple of October. Are not these, then, also a part of the harvest? Indeed, all summer and autumn, even till the last stalk of corn is cut and the rustling shocks lie scattered in corn husking in November, are but the gathering in of the products from the seeds of the previous fall and the blossoms of the spring. Let us turn to the hayfield while the men are there. It is no wonder the cows love clover. See it turn over, 265. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Huston, Paul Griswold. Cincinnati, Jennings and Graham; New York, Eaton and Mains
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