Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19
Maine Gossip
God and the Farmer.

/ (1ale Review
| COD sat down with the farmer
When the noontide heat grew harsh.
Inc one mad builded a world that day,
And the other had drained a marsh.
1hey sat in the cooling shadow
AT the porch of the tempted wood;
And each looked forth on his handiwork
And saw that the work was good.
On Gods right hand two asaerubs
Bent waiting, Winged with fire:
On the farmers LETT his oxen bowed
Deep bosoms marked with mire.
Stlll chung around the plowshare
The dark, mysterious mold,
Where the furrow il turned had heaved
the new
Ger the chill and churlish old.
Jehovah's face was seen not
BY OK or grazing kline;
But the farmers eyes, were they dazed
with sun,
Or saw he that look divine?
Was it the wind in passing
That stroked that farmers hair?
Or had Gods own hand of wind and
flame
Laid benedictlon there?
Through muf1ing miles he fancied
Far calls of greeting blew,
Where on sounding plains the lords OF
war
Hurled down to rear anew.
Glad hail from nation-builders
Crossed faint those dreamland bounds,
Like DIOtner cry from d ulStdLl Hlt4'
And God spake as the pine-tree sounds.
There are seven downy meadows
That never before were mown;
There were seven fields OF brush ana
rock
Where now is nor bush nor stone,
There are seven heifers grazing
Where but one could Craze before.
O lords of marts-and of broken hearts
What have you given me more?
God rose up with the farmer
When the cool of the evening neared;
And the one went forth through the
worlds He built, |.
And the one through the fields he
cleared
The stars outlasting labor -.
Leaned down Ger the towering sou,
And ali night long Ger His child there
leaned
A Toiler more old than toll,
The Portland Express editorial writ
or after intimating that he was
"stroliing through Boston Common
Sunday" tells of overhearing man
say. Think of this delightful day IN
mid-December. Yet l imagine that
down in Maine they have skating
sleighing and all kinds of winter
weather." These people west of u.s.
who refer in general terms to Down
in Maine" continues the Express, sell
dom stop to consider that in popular
parlance Maine is some state" once
last week the unofficial record for the
Moosehead Lake region was 10 de-
srees below the zero mark, while in
Portland the mercury lowered around
so an day. While we are. dramatically
speaking, but a trifle more than 100
miles east of Boston here in Western
Maine, it takes as long to go from
Portland to Aroostook county as II
does from Portland to New York. so
these Boston commenters should quail
ify their statements when referring to
conditions of wind and weather in the
Pine Tree State. Names greatest
length is 800 miles. it's greatest width,
212 miles, It's area is 33,040 square
miles, and according to statement
made to the Changers at Bangor to-
day by State Master c. S. Stetson, is
5000 miles larger than all the rest OF
New England combined Sixty five
per cent. of the land of the State OF
Maine is woodland so it will be seen
that there still are remaining fields
of research for primitive men," AS
the crow flies along our coast it is but
226 miles from Kittery to Quoddy
Head yet we have $500 miles of sea
coast!