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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By HamlinGarland

1389 The Meadow Lark

A BRAVE little bird that fears not God,

A voice that breaks from the snow-wet clod

With prophecy of sunny sod,

Set thick with wind-waved goldenrod.

From the first bare clod in the raw, cold spring,

From the last bare clod, when fall winds sting,

The farm-boys hears his brave song ring,

And work for the time is a pleasant thing.