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"So God Made A Farmer"

Shy Dakota2Shy Dakota2 Posts: 6
edited 07.07.2013 in The Chicken Coop
This is my fav. poem by Paul Harvey! I made a little alteration. I hope you like!
So God Made a Farmer

And on the eight day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker." So God made a farmer.

God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the field, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the township board." So God made a farmer.

"I need somebody with arms strong enough to wrestle a calf and yet gentle enough to cradle his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait for lunch until his wife's done visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure to come back real soon and mean it to." So God made a farmer.

God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year,' I need somebody who can shape an axe handle from an ash tree, shoe a horse, who can fix a harness with hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. Who, during planting time and harvest season will finish his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon and then, paining from tractor back, up in another 72 hours." So God made a farmer.

God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double the speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place. So God made a farmer.

God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle enough to help a newborn calf begin to suckle and tend the pink-comb pullets, who will stop his mower in an instant to avoid the nest of meadowlarks."
It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight and not cut corners.

Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, brake, disk, plow, plant, strain the milk, replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week's work with an eight mile drive to church. Somebody who'd bale a family together with soft, strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh and then reply with smiling eyes when his family says that they are proud of what Dad does. "So God made a farmer."
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Comments

  • SystemSystem Posts: 106,969
    edited 06.07.2013
    Great Poem :D
    Farmers of BigFarm :D


    Farmer bibin
  • FarmerTess (AU1)FarmerTess (AU1) Posts: 2,393
    edited 07.07.2013
    hi Shy Dakota

    Loved the poem. Thank you for sharing
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