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When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yie ...
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civili ...
Those summer days which some of my contemporaries devoted to the fine arts in Boston or Rome, and others to contemplation in India ...
As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years liv ...
I was determined to know beans.
I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Ant ...
But why should not the New Englander try new adventures, and not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and h ...
I did not read books the first summer; I hoed beans.
Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.
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