Wheat

Steady lads
You're the farmer
You're the scythe
Sharp like a knife
They're the wheat
Stalks in the wind
Steady boys
They come again
Time to reap. 

4/17/14

Author's note: The battle of the Wheat-field, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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