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THE GOOD OF IT.
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Then growing, growing, tall, brave, and strong:
With the voice of new harvests in its song;
     While in fond scorn
The lark out-carols the whispering corn.

A strange, sweet path, formed day by day,
How, when, and wherefore, we cannot say,
No more than of our life-paths we know,
Whither they lead us, why we go;
Or whether our eyes shall ever see
The wheat in the ear or the fruit on the tree;
     Yet, who 's forlorn?—
He who watered the furrows can ripen the corn.


THE GOOD OF IT.
A Cynic's Song.

SOME men strut proudly, all purple and gold,
Hiding queer deeds 'neath a cloak of good fame;
I creep along, braving hunger and cold,
To keep my heart stainless as well as my name;
   So, so, where is the good of it?