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Rh Seasons pursuing each other, the plougher ploughs,
 * the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in
 * the ground,

Off on the lakes the pike-fisher watches and waits by
 * the hole in the frozen surface,

The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the
 * squatter strikes deep with his axe,

Flatboatmen make fast, towards dusk, near the cotton-
 * wood or pekan-trees,

Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river,
 * or through those drained by the Tennessee, or
 * through those of the Arkansaw,

Torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chatta-
 * hooche or Altamahaw,

Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and
 * great-grandsons around them,

In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and
 * trappers after their day's sport,

The city sleeps and the country sleeps, The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for
 * their time,

The old husband sleeps by his wife, and the young
 * husband sleeps by his wife;

And these one and all tend inward to me, and I tend
 * outward to them,

And such as it is to be of these, more or less, I am.

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the
 * wise,

Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is coarse, and stuffed with
 * the stuff that is fine,