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 Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
 This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.  
 Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
 This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower. 
 The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth 
and sweetened by the airs of heaven.  
 The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth 
and sweetened by the airs of heaven. 
 He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
 [Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.]  
 He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
 [Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.] 
 Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil,
 We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.  
 Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil,
 We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. 
 The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never 
see the fruit.
 [Lat., Abores serit diligens read more 
 The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never 
see the fruit.
 [Lat., Abores serit diligens agricola, quarum adspiciet baccam 
ipse numquam.] 
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are read more
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
"Ten acres and a mule."
"Ten acres and a mule."
 He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is 
now fast rising read more 
 He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is 
now fast rising from affluence to poverty. 
 Look up! the wide extended plain
 Is billowy with its ripened grain,
  And on the summer winds read more 
 Look up! the wide extended plain
 Is billowy with its ripened grain,
  And on the summer winds are rolled
   Its waves of emerald and gold.