The Cracking of the Corn.
Listen’d with pleasure to crackling sound
Made fitfully by ripening grain all round;
Glass-coated straws, each bearing up aloft
Its load of welcome food,—Oats, Barley, Wheat, 5
Or Rye; fit nutriment for beast and man:
And when cool zephyrs breathe, to gently fan
Our burning brows in the autumnal heat,
How gracefully the golden grain doth wave
Its myriad heads in homage to the sun! 10
Mankind from savagery had well begun
To march the path of progress, and to have
Dim notions they were for usefulness were born,
Men in rude furrows they first sow’d the corn.
George Markham Tweddell
[Sonnets on Trees and Flowers, p. 17.] Also published in The
Freemason, Detroit, Michigan, U.S., Nov. 13, 1886, Northern
fWeekly Gazette, October 30th, 1897
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