{"id":367,"date":"2010-04-22T00:20:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T00:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=367"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:06:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:06:31","slug":"seed-time-and-harvest-by-john-greenleaf-whittier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/seed-time-and-harvest-by-john-greenleaf-whittier\/","title":{"rendered":"SEED-TIME AND HARVEST by John Greenleaf Whittier"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)<\/p>\n

SEED-TIME AND HARVEST by John Greenleaf Whittier<\/p>\n

As o’er his furrowed fields which lie
\nBeneath a coldly-dropping sky,
\nYet chill with winter’s melted snow,
\nThe husbandman goes forth to sow,<\/p>\n

Thus, Freedom, on the bitter blast
\nThe ventures of thy seed we cast,
\nAnd trust to warmer sun and rain
\nTo swell the germ, and fill the grain.<\/p>\n

Who calls thy glorious service hard?
\nWho deems it not its own reward?
\nWho, for its trials, counts it less
\nA cause of praise and thankfulness?<\/p>\n

It may not be our lot to wield
\nThe sickle in the ripened field;
\nNor ours to hear, on summer eves,
\nThe reaper’s song among the sheaves.<\/p>\n

Yet where our duty’s task is wrought
\nIn unison with God’s great thought,
\nThe near and future blend in one,
\nAnd whatsoe’er is willed, is done!<\/p>\n

And ours the grateful service whence
\nComes, day by day, the recompense;
\nThe hope, the trust, the purpose stayed,
\nThe fountain and the noonday shade.<\/p>\n

And were this life the utmost span,
\nThe only end and aim of man,
\nBetter the toil of fields like these
\nThan waking dream and slothful ease.<\/p>\n

But life, though falling like our grain,
\nLike that revives and springs again;
\nAnd, early called, how blest are they
\nWho wait in heaven their harvest-day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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