Show A crop of acorin BY LYDIA H SIGOURNEY i there came a ran man in days of old ola I 1 to hire apiece a piece of land for gold I 1 and urged burgod his suit in accents meek one crop alone is all I 1 seek I 1 that harvest oer my claim I 1 beld and AM to its lord resign the fiela 11 the owner some misgivings felt and coldly with the stranger dealt but found his last objection fail and ami eloquence prevail so took the proffered price N in hand and for one crop leason lease out the land the will wil tenant sneered with pride and sowed bowed the spot with acorns wide at firt first like tiny una shoots they grew 0 then broad and wide their brunches threw 1 but long before the oaten oaks sublime 1 I 1 aspiring reached forest rime the cheated che cited landlord lay forgotten with his bis kindred clay 6 0 yo ye whose who yearn a unfolding fair are an arb wite youth and aad free frum from WO care should vie vice or ind indolence lence asire the gardt gudan n of your souls to he bite no parley pal lev leold ibold reject the euils suils nor let one wed seed the soil pollute my child their airi t approach beware with tr thinness finn inness nesa break the insidious snare lest last as aa the acorns grew and throve into a sun elc excluding luding grove thy sins a dark oer shadowing tree shut out the light of heaven from thee re copyright secured |