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A Saxon Song

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Tools with the comely names,              Mattock and scythe and spade,              Couth and bitter as flames,              Clean, and bowed in the blade,     A man and his tools make a man and his trade.              Breadth of the English shires,              Hummock and kame and mead,              Tang of the reeking byres,              Land of the English breed,     A man and his land make a man and his creed.              Leisurely flocks and herds,              Cool-eyed cattle that come              Mildly to wonted words,              Swine that in orchards roam,     A man and his beasts make a man and his home.              Children sturdy and flaxen              Shouting in brotherly strife,              Like the land they are Saxon,              Sons of a man and his wife,     For a man and his loves make a man and his life.

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