So Eben turned again to hoe his beans,
But now, to ballads which his Herdsman sung,
Henceforth he hoed the dream in with the dung,
And for his ancient spleens
Planting new joys, imagination found him means.
At last old Hezekiah loosed his tongue:
“Well, boy, this school—what has it learned ye to know?”
He said: “To hoe.”
The Forum Percy MacKaye