Where the Cocklebur Grows.

Where the Cocklebur Grows.
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Although fertile the soll.
If there be lack of toil
Unremittingly done in between the long rows:
Makes the farmer forlorn
When he gathers his corn,
In fields that are foul where the cockle- bur grows.

In the cool, frosty morn,
When he goes to husk corn,
As he bobs up the talls of his horses he knows
That the nettles are thick,
And they mat and they stick
To a man or a beast where the cockle- bur grows.

The ears are not plump,
And they make a light thump
As they strike on the wagon box side when he throws;
And the stalks, standing light, Show effects of the blight
You will find on all farms where the cocklebur grows.

When the season is through,
And the bills coming due,
With demand for the payment of money he owes,
Then unhappy the lot
Of the man who has not
Pulled the weeds from the field where
the cocklebur grows.
-Representative, Nevad, Lowa,