Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE ANXIOUS FARMER, by BURGES JOHNSON


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First Line: It was awful long ago
Last Line: For every single seed!
Subject(s): Children; Plants; Childhood; Planting; Planters


It was awful long ago
That I put those seeds around;
And I guess I ought to know
When I stuck 'em in the ground.
'Cause I noted down the day
In a little diary book,—
It's gotten losted somewheres and
I don't know where to look.

But I'm certain anyhow
They 've been planted most a week;
And it must be time by now
For their little sprouts to peek.
They 've been watered every day
With a very speshul care,
And once or twice I've dug 'em up
To see if they was there.

I fixed the dirt in humps
Just the way they said I should;
And I crumbled all the lumps
Just as finely as I could.
And I found a nangle-worm
A-poking up his head,—
He maybe feeds on seeds and such,
And so I squushed him dead.

A seed 's so very small,
And dirt all looks the same;—
How can they know at all
The way they ought to aim?
And so I'm waiting round
In case of any need;
A farmer ought to do his best
For every single seed!





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