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—Then the tune for which quails on the corn-land will each leave his mate
To fly after the player; then, what makes the crickets elate,
Till for boldness they fight one another; and then, what has weight
To set the quick jerboa a-musing outside his sand house—
There are none such as he for a wonder, half bird and half mouse!—
God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear,
To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here.
—Then the tune for which quails on the corn-land will each leave his mate
To fly after the player; then, what makes the crickets elate,
Till for boldness they fight one another; and then, what has weight
To set the quick jerboa a-musing outside his sand house—
There are none such as he for a wonder, half bird and half mouse!—
God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear,
To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here.
7.
Then I played the help-tune of our reapers, their wine-song, when hand
Then I played the help-tune of our reapers, their wine-song, when hand
