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By the Roadside

A Farm Picture

Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding, And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.

A Child’s Amaze

Silent and amazed even when a little boy, I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his statements, As contending against some being or influence.

The Runner

On a flat road runs the well-train’d runner, He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs, He is thinly clothed, he leans

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