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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FAMILY: 3, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: About my fields, in the broad sun
Last Line: And digs like a demented beast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives
First Line: About my fields, in the broad sun
Last Line: And digs like a demented beast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives
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About my fields, in the broad sun
And blaze of noon, there goeth one,
Barefoot and robed in blue, to scan
With the hard eye of the husbandman
My harvests and my cattle. Her,
When even puts the birds astir
And day has set in the great woods,
We seek, among her garden roods,
With bells and cries in vain: the while
Lamps, plate, and the decanter smile
On the forgotten board. But she,
Deaf, blind, and prone on face and knee,
Forgets time, family and feast
And digs like a demented beast.
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