Together, gathered from the breathing-time

They give the fellows while the dog-days last,

He found the harness chafe; then grew morose,

And kicked above the traces, going home

Hardly a Junior, but a sounder man,

In mind and body, than a host who win

Your baccalaureate honors. There he stayed,

Half tired of bookmen, on his father’s farm,

And gladly felt the plough-helve. In a year

The old man gave his blessing to the son,