Those who have served the cause of the revolution have plowed the sea.

quote by Simon Bolivar
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Plowed, Planted, And Weeded

the human mind
is but a field...
it has to be plowed,

planted and weeded..
it needs sunlight and rain.
if the gardener is attentive,

the crop will be good.
if we let it lay untended,
it becomes a field of death!

the crop that we raise
is the food of the future...
plowed, planted, and weeded!

poem by Eric Cockrell
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If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

quote by Seymoure Cray
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He that lippens to bodden ploughs, his hand lies lee.

Scottish proverbs
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He who ploughs with young oxen, makes crooked furrows.

German proverbs
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One ploughs, another sows, who will reap no one knows.

Danish proverbs
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Pick Up The Plow!

put down your sword,
pick up the plow!
a new day has come,
a new world before us!

in the beginning again,
we are the first hope.
pick up the plow,
till the earth...

our home and our hope!
a new day, a new way,
we work side by side..
beneath the sun, in the rain...

and we make love all night!
time is for the taker,
and now is the time...
put down your sword,

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poem by Eric Cockrell
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Eating slowly is good for the stomach; plowing deeply is good for the fields.

Vietnamese proverbs
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He ploughs the land of others, and leaves his own untilled.

Latin proverbs
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One with a plow ? seven with a spoon.

Russian proverbs
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Fool for Fools' go[l]d ploughs
the field of vanity fair
to cruel mirage hous

haiku by Jonathan Robin (19 June 2004)
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Drive not too many ploughs at once, some will make foul work.

Danish proverbs
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Hand plow can't make furrows by itself.

African American proverbs
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To Jane Addams at the Hague

I. SPEAK NOW FOR PEACE

Lady of Light, and our best woman, and queen,
Stand now for peace, (though anger breaks your heart),
Though naught but smoke and flame and drowning is seen.

Lady of Light, speak, though you speak alone,
Though your voice may seem as a dove's in this howling flood,
It is heard to-night by every senate and throne.

Though the widening battle of millions and millions of men
Threatens to-night to sweep the whole of the earth,
Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again.

II. TOLSTOI IS PLOWING YET

Tolstoi is plowing yet. When the smoke-clouds break,
High in the sky shines a field as wide as the world.

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poem by Vachel Lindsay
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Tolstoi Is Plowing Yet

Tolstoi is plowing yet. When the smoke-clouds break,
High in the sky shines a field as wide as the world.
There he toils for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake.

Ah, he is taller than clouds of the little earth.
Only the congress of planets is over him,
And the arching path where new sweet stars have birth.

Wearing his peasant dress, his head bent low,
Tolstoi, that angel of Peace, is plowing yet;
Forward, across the field, his horses go.

poem by Vachel Lindsay
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If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

quote by William Faulkner
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Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo

This is SIR BARNABY BAMPTON BOO,
Last of a noble race,
BARNABY BAMPTON, coming to woo,
All at a deuce of a pace.
BARNABY BAMPTON BOO,
Here is a health to you:
Here is wishing you luck, you elderly buck -
BARNABY BAMPTON BOO!

The excellent women of Tuptonvee
Knew SIR BARNABY BOO;
One of them surely his bride would be,
But dickens a soul knew who.
Women of Tuptonvee,
Here is a health to ye
For a Baronet, dears, you would cut off your ears,
Women of Tuptonvee!

Here are old MR. and MRS. DE PLOW
(PETER his Christian name),

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poem by William Schwenck Gilbert
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Flies plough the ox' horns.

Bulgarian proverbs
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Ploughing the land

Ploughing the land--
not even a bird singing
in the mountain's shadow.

Translated by Robert Hass

poem by Yosa Buson
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The Plow Of My Papa

today is the last day to sell the plow of my papa
it is a necessary part of his lifetime
in fact
his lifetime is the plow itself that made the lines
of his own poetry in the fields
of rice and corn
today another man shall have it
at the price we all wanted
we have sold all that he had
the land, the house, the trees he planted
when he was still alive
when he was still strong and cruel and so imposing

this is his only plow
and we have dedided to dispose it finally
to any man

we are now at the stage of reconstructing our lives
and the plow of papa must go

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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