I have plow’d the rough hill and the meadow

Till feeble with age and with toil,

And I know before long that another

Shall reap the new fruits of the soil.

For the son that hath toil’d for me ever,

And faithfully stood by my side,

Hath a hand that shall gather the harvest,

When his feeble old father hath died.

And the daughter so kind to her mother,

Shall share with him all I possess,