General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date:
1885 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Subjects: Alpes-Maritimes
(France) Maritime Alps (France and Italy) France History / Europe /
France Travel / Europe / General Travel / Europe / France Notes:
This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no
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books for free. Excerpt: 55 CHAPTER IV. CORN, WINE, AND OIL. ' The
sire of gods and men, with hard deciees, Forbids our plenty to be
bought with case, And wills that mortal man, inured to toil, Should
exercise, with pains, the grudging soil. . . . Nor is the profit
small the peasant makes, Who smooths with harrows, or who pounds
with rakes The stubborn clods. Nor Ceres from on high Regards his
labours with a grudging eye: Nor his, who plougha across the
furrowed ground, And on the back of Earth inflicts new wounds: For
he, with frequent exercise, commands The unwilling soil, and tames
the stubborn lands.1 I. Georyic (Dryden). ' The field labourer of
Northern countries may be but a hapless hind, hedging and ditching
dolefully, or at best serving a steam-beast with oil and fire; but
in the South there ia the poetry of agriculture still. Materially
it may be an evil and a loss; but spiritually it is a gain -- a
certain peace and light lie on the people at their toil: the reaper
with his hook, the plougher with his oxen, the girl who gleans
among the trailing vines, the men who sing to get a blessing on the
grapes -- they have all a certain grace and dignity of the old
classic ways left with them. They till the earth still with the
simplicity of old, looking straight to the gods for recompense. It
will not last, but it is here for a little while longer still.' --
Ouida. Mirabeau said of the soil of Provence t...
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