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Out of the mud two strangers came	A
And caught me splitting wood in the yard	B
And one of them put me off my aim	A
By hailing cheerily Hit them hard	B
I knew pretty well why he had dropped behind	C
And let the other go on a way	D
I knew pretty well what he had in mind	C
He wanted to take my job for pay	D
	-
Good blocks of oak it was I split	E
As large around as the chopping block	F
And every piece I squarely hit	E
Fell splinterless as a cloven rock	F
The blows that a life of self control	G
Spares to strike for the common good	H
That day giving a loose to my soul	G
I spent on the unimportant wood	H
	-
The sun was warm but the wind was chill	I
You know how it is with an April day	D
When the sun is out and the wind is still	I
You're one month on in the middle of May	D
But if you so much as dare to speak	J
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch	K
A wind comes off a frozen peak	J
And you're two months back in the middle of March	K
	-
A bluebird comes tenderly up to alight	L
And turns to the wind to unruffle a plume	M
His song so pitched as not to excite	L
A single flower as yet to bloom	M
It is snowing a flake and he half knew	N
Winter was only playing possum	O
Except in color he isn't blue	N
But he wouldn't advise a thing to blossom	O
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The water for which we may have to look	P
In summertime with a witching wand	Q
In every wheelrut's now a brook	P
In every print of a hoof a pond	Q
Be glad of water but don't forget	R
The lurking frost in the earth beneath	S
That will steal forth after the sun is set	R
And show on the water its crystal teeth	S
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The time when most I loved my task	T
The two must make me love it more	U
By coming with what they came to ask	T
You'd think I never had felt before	U
The weight of an ax head poised aloft	V
The grip of earth on outspread feet	W
The life of muscles rocking soft	X
And smooth and moist in vernal heat	W
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Out of the wood two hulking tramps	Y
From sleeping God knows where last night	L
But not long since in the lumber camps	Z
They thought all chopping was theirs of right	L
Men of the woods and lumberjacks	Z
They judged me by their appropriate tool	A2
Except as a fellow handled an ax	Z
They had no way of knowing a fool	A2
	-
Nothing on either side was said	B2
They knew they had but to stay their stay	D
	-
And all their logic would fill my head	B2
As that I had no right to play	D
With what was another man's work for gain	C2
My right might be love but theirs was need	D2
And where the two exist in twain	C2
Theirs was the better right agreed	D2
	-
But yield who will to their separation	E2
My object in living is to unite	L
My avocation and my vocation	E2
As my two eyes make one in sight	L
Only where love and need are one	E2
And the work is play for mortal stakes	Z
Is the deed ever really done	E2
For Heaven and the future's sakes	Z

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