Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.
Crimean Invalid Soldiers Reaping at Aldershot
By Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (18091885)R
Ye have reaped the green and the young,
The fruits that were scarcely born,—
The fibres that just were strung.
The wit and the worth of Man,
The tears that we vainly weep,
The deeds that we vainly plan.
Of the pregnant Earth commands,
Each seed with a future rife,
And the work of a thousand hands.