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The SowersAuthor(s): Claud NicholsonSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 27, No. 311 (May, 1899), p. 254Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499436 .

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254 The Iri8h Monthly.

For the rest, Anna Gaynor was a daughter of the late John

Gaynor, Esq., of Roxborough, Roscommon, and Belvedere Place, Dublin, and sister to the late James Gaynor, Esq., J.P., Roxborough, Roscommon. She was also a sister of Mrs. Gaynor, Superioress of the Training School for Gtirls, under the Sisters of Charity, Stanhope Street, Dublin, and of Mrs. Sarah Atkinson, who will long be remembered for her noble work, not only with her pen, but in her silent charity among the poor of Dublin.

ROSA MUJLHOLLAND GILBERT.

THE SOWERS.%

OU, lonely peasant in labour sweating, From golden rising to crimson setting,

In your stern soil, never forgetting Your groan of sorrow,

Sow, sow! a fecund birth Will yet burst from your barren earth, Feeding the children of your hearth,

This is the Bread of their to-morrow That you sow!

You, aged master in knowledge paling,

With eyes far-seeing, and footste) failing, Truth teach our children (with voices wailing

In early sorrow). Sow, sow! -your fecund word Dwells in the ear where it is heard,

Ripens'in hearts that it has stirred,

This is the Force of their to-morrow

That you sow!

You, priest, who ply, are ever plying, Your trade of Hope when men are dying, Of Comfort, when they seek you, sighing

In their great sorrow,

Sow, sow! your fecund prayer In souls made barren and laid bare

By sin; down-trodden in despair,

This is the Promise of God's Morrow That you sow !

CLAuD NIHEOLSON.

* Suggested by a Breton song.

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