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 I′m sorry for the Dead – Today –
It’s such congenial +times
Old neighbors have at fences –
It′s time o′year for Hay,

 

And Broad – Sunburned Ac-
quaintance
Discourse between the Toil –
And laugh, a homely species
That makes the Fences smile –

 

It seems so straight to lie
away
From all the +noise of Fields –
The Busy Carts – the fragrant
Cocks –
The Mower′s metre – Steals

 

A Trouble lest they′re homesick –
Those Farmers – and their Wives –

 

 ¦

 

+Set separate from the Farming –
And all the Neighbor′s lives –

 

A Wonder if the Sepulchre
Dont feel a lonesome way –
When Men – and Boys – and
+Carts – and June,
Go down the Fields to ′′Hay′′ –

 

+ Way  + Sound  +  Put quiet –
+ Larks –

+You cannot put a Fire out –

A Thing that can ignite

Can go, itself, without a Fan –

Opon the slowest night –

 

You cannot fold a Flood –

And put it in a Drawer –

Because the Winds would find it out –

And tell your Cedar Floor –

  + No Man