PLOUGHING AS USUAL.
“While the shells were bursting over the fields about Ypres, an obi mail was observed ploughing as usual,” says the “Daily Chronicle,” and the fact suggests these verses by “E.D.” : Tliou’rt wiser than the rest of us, Who, far away, yet .fret and fuss. Though Death is stalking all around Thou tendest still thy plot of ground; While men about thee burn and kill, Still t-liou preparest land to till . And whilo the human world with strife _ Resounds, as though man hated life, Thou, closely bound to Mother Earth, Thinkest with her of growth and birth. So, working there, thy steadfast wifi The eternal purpose doth fulfil— Said for all time, or war or peace, Seedtime and harvest shall not ccaso*
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3984, 17 July 1915, Page 7
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124PLOUGHING AS USUAL. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3984, 17 July 1915, Page 7
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