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The Harvest of the Sea

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The earth grows white with harvest; all day long              The sickles gleam, until the darkness weaves             Her web of silence o'er the thankful song              Of reapers bringing home the golden sheaves.             The wave tops whiten on the sea fields drear,              And men go forth at haggard dawn to reap;             But ever 'mid the gleaners' song we hear              The half-hushed sobbing of the hearts that weep.

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