<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357562" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fruit of Earth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The winds that blow about the world<br>(Said Old George Jones)<br>See here all hope to ruin hurled,<br>See there triumphant flags unfurled,<br>Over chance-favored zones.<br>And no man's wisdom, no man's might<br>Foresees, much les controls<br>Some little breeze born of the night<br>That brings perchance a sudden blight<br>Or balm for tortured souls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But growin' things and sowin' things<br>And watchin' of 'em grow<br>Not hastenin' things or slowin' things<br>Nor seekin' to be knowin' things<br> That men may never know.<br>'Tis so the kind earth pays a man<br> 'Tis so content is made.<br>Not work, but worry slays a man;<br>I take what tricks Fate plays a man<br>An' sticks to Adam's trade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fears that creep about the earth <br>Vague fears and short-lived joys <br>What in reckonin' are they worth?<br>Too quickly swayed by grief or mirth<br>We live like foolish boys.<br>Year in, year out, earth mothers us<br>And offers livelihood,<br>This year ill fortune bothers us<br>Next year her bounty smothers us:<br>The sum of all is good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis futile man proposes things;<br>But Nature goes her ways<br>And God alone disposes things,<br>And Time alone discloses things<br>That rule our future says.<br>Earth yields me her fertility<br>And till she takes my bones,<br>I'll nought of man's futility.<br>For peace bides in humility<br>(Said Old George Jones).</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357562" data-title="Fruit of Earth de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="The winds that blow about the world (Said Old George Jones) See here all hope to ruin hurled, See there triumphant flags unfurled, Over chance-favored zones. And no man's wisdom, no man's might Foresees, much les controls Some little breeze born o..."></div> </div> </div>

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