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Having finishedbrackets to hold them,

I put away my tools, and donned hat and coat

It was yet early, and there was, besides,to be

done, but I felt unwontedly tired and out of sorts, wherefore,

with my bars and brackets beneath es, on either side of me, caes the fields stood high with

ripening corn--a yellow, heavy-headed host, nodding and swaying

lazily I stood awhile to listen to its whisper as the gentle

wind swept over it, and to look down the long green alleys of the

hop-gardens beyond; and at the end of one of these straight

arched vistas there shone a solitary, great star

And presently, lifting , and ree, I breathed a sigh of thankfulness that I was yet

alive with strength to ithin a world so beautiful

Now, as I stood thus, I heard a voice hailing

about, espied one, soe, who Dick, the

Pedler

He nodded and grinned as I caue