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To lift, to fetch, to drive, to shed, to pen,
Are acts I recognize, with all they mean
Of shepherding the unruly, for a kind of
Controlled woolgathering is my work too.

Cecil Day Lewis

Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972), Irish poet. Sheepdog Trials in Hyde Park (l. 45–48).

NoP. Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.

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