Pleasant Autumn Vow Amid Garden Gate Memory
Poem reflects a couple’s wedding vow in the harvest season. The speaker recalls kissing the bride’s lips and hair, the wealth of love like gold and stars, and a union tested by time and fate. They wed at the garden gate in autumn’s calm, promising to live and love together.
May Day brings a pair of lovers to Grass town
A rambling May scene follows a pretty country girl named Bessie Gray as Charley the stubborn horse blocks their path. A chance encounter with a dashing young man reveals a plan to move Daisyville and meet at Grass town with new owners and a gardener named Charles Marks returning home.
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April
Charley
Lion
Chimley
Benesth
Xouses
Grasstown
Harley
Lin” Ste
Beiti Ig
Daisyvilla
Daisyville
Hiven
Charles Marks
Bessi
M ‘Marks
Daisville
Besid
Bel
Bette
Retiring Subscribers at Odds Over Subscriptions
An editor calmly notes subscribers defecting after disputes with views on farming topics. He recalls Jim Sowers who stopped over grafting timothy on huckleberry bushes, and George Erickson who quit after a disagreement about a late pregnancy. The piece highlights the blunt social consequences of subscriber dissent.
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Jim Sowers
Geor Erickson
Eagle Creek