A. B. Bragdon: Alas, how scant the sheaves for all the trouble, The toil, the pain and the resolve sublime— A few full ears; the rest b

Alas, how scant the sheaves for all the trouble, The toil, the pain and the reso — A. B. Bragdon

Alas, how scant the sheaves for all the trouble, The toil, the pain and the resolve sublime— A few full ears; the rest but weeds and stubble, And withered wild-flowers plucked before their time.

A. B. Bragdon

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