<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354941" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Harvest Time</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the cranky German waggon,<br>With its ten or fifteen bag on<br>Comes a-jerkin’ and a-joltin’ down the dusty, limestone street,<br>And the “Norther’s” blowin’ blindin’,<br>And the rollers are a-grindin’,<br>And the agent jabs his sampler thro’ the sackin’ to the wheat,<br>Let ’em slide along the plank! slide along! slide along!<br>Sixty bushels for the Bank; slide along!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When your back is fairly breakin’<br>And your very fingers shakin’<br>With the heavin’, heavin’, heavin’, in the blarsted, blazin’ sun;<br>And the agent finds the spots out<br>And takes all his sample lots out<br>Where its rusty, pinched, or smutty—knockin’ off five pound a ton;<br>Sling ’em over with a jerk! slide along! slide along!<br>Sixty days of wasted work! slide along!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sixty days a-ploughin’ mallee<br>In the God-forgotten valley<br>Of the creepin’, crawlin’ Murray, with the dingoes for your mates!<br>Sow and harrow, roll and reap it,<br>But you get no show to keep it,<br>For it’s “Boom and bust yer biler” when the cocky speculates!<br>Let the bankers take the lot: slide along! slide along!<br>Farmin’ mallee’s bloomin’ rot—slide along!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Henry+Souter">Charles Henry Souter</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354941" data-title="Harvest Time de Charles Henry Souter" data-description="When the cranky German waggon, With its ten or fifteen bag on Comes a-jerkin’ and a-joltin’ down the dusty, limestone street, And the “Norther’s” blowin’ blindin’, And the rollers are a-grindin’, And the agent jabs his sampler thro..."></div> </div> </div>

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