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Show T T "J- OUR THANKSGIVING . Let us give thanks that wq havo earned our bread, Our daUy bread and robbed no man thereby; , Let us give, thankathjit many mouths, aro fed ,l Fed with our corn nnd wheat and oats and rjfd; ' Let us gl fa thanks for strength to do our work, That work which makes tho desert as tho rose, Which brings the harvest up from muck and murk, Mnklng a poem ot earth's dullest prose; '4 For sun nnd rnln by which this beauty grows, Let us give thanks! Let us give thanks for minds that know repose, Keposo that comes to honest weariness; Let us gie thanks for sleep tho worker knows, Who toljs his best and brings no soul distress; For haarts ubfretted and for horny hands, ' For sinews great and calm, unfcarlng eyes, For good brown earth and wide hnd fecund lands, For sclenco over mnking us moro wlso, For hearth nnd homo nnd all tho rost wo prizo, Let us glvo thnnksl For poaco of soul which money never buys, For freedom In n world which is not free, For God'B outdoors and overarching skies, For all tho season's changing mystory, For llfo and lovo that comes to mo and thee, Let us glvo thanks! Borton Braley. |