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IN THE PAUPER'S TURNIP-FIELD by HERMAN MELVILLE

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First Line: CROW, IN PULPIT LONE AND TALL
Last Line: A MATTOCK HEAVIER THAN THE HOE.

Crow, in pulpit lone and tall
Of yon charred hemlock, grimly dead,
Why on me in preachment call --
Me, by nearer preachment led
Here in homily of my hoe.
The hoe, the hoe,
My heavy hoe
That earthward bows me to foreshow
A mattock heavier than the hoe.



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