 | Alan Patrick Herbert - 1923 - 82 pages
...at last The gorgeous Orient, aghast — Majestic, comatose and vast, The very latest Cow. ii T VHE Farmer will never be happy again; He carries his heart...his grain Or the drought is destroying his roots. You may speak, if you can, to this querulous man, Though I should not attempt to be funny, And if you... | |
 | 1926 - 546 pages
...West is credited with a proverbial discontent, which a humorous poet has described as follows — " The farmer will never be happy again, He carries his...For either the rain is destroying his grain, Or the sun is destroying his roots. " What is true of the climate of the West is even more -applicable to... | |
 | Lionel Charles Dunsterville - 1928 - 326 pages
...dilemma. The clever rhyme in the child's book of poetry (I am sorry I forget the author's name) says : 'The farmer will never be happy again, He carries...his grain Or the drought is destroying his roots. In fact if you meet this unfortunate man The conclusion is only too plain That Nature is just an elaborate... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 pages
...suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings. 1872 "The Fanner' The Farmer will never be happy again; He carries his...his grain Or the drought is destroying his roots. sit. 1873 A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. 1 874 "The... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interlor blessings. 4558 'The Farmer' ugh the universe and faintly falling, like the descent...dead. 5311 Finnegans Wake That ideal reader suffering 4559 A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. 4560 'The President... | |
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The Farmer will never be happy again ; He carries his heart in his boots ; For either the rain is destroying his grain Or the drought is destroying his roots. 