Page:The Man with the Hoe, Markham, 1900.djvu/99

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In Poppy Fields

Here the poppy hosts assemble:
How they startle, how they tremble!
All their royal hoods unpinned
Blow out lightly in the wind.
Here is gold to labor for;
Here is pillage worth a war.


Men that in the cities grind,
Come! before the heart is blind.

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