{"product_id":"2940149093960","title":"Poetry: A Hidden Life and Other Poems ( epic, poem, poems, poet, poetry, William Shakespeare, literature, Edgar Allan poem, plays, works )","description":"Highly Recommended! Fantastic Reading!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge MacDonald collection\u003cbr\u003eProudly the youth, by manhood sudden crowned,\u003cbr\u003eWent walking by his horses to the plough,\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time that morn. No soldier gay\u003cbr\u003eFeels at his side the throb of the gold hilt\u003cbr\u003e(Knowing the blue blade hides within its sheath,\u003cbr\u003eAs lightning in the cloud) with more delight,\u003cbr\u003eWhen first he belts it on, than he that day\u003cbr\u003eHeard still the clank of the plough-chains against\u003cbr\u003eThe horses' harnessed sides, as to the field\u003cbr\u003eThey went to make it fruitful. O'er the hill\u003cbr\u003eThe sun looked down, baptizing him for toil.\u003cbr\u003eA farmer's son he was, and grandson too;\u003cbr\u003eYea, his great-grandsire had possessed these fields.\u003cbr\u003eTradition said they had been tilled by men\u003cbr\u003eWho bore the name long centuries ago,\u003cbr\u003eAnd married wives, and reared a stalwart race,\u003cbr\u003eAnd died, and went where all had followed them,\u003cbr\u003eSave one old man, his daughter, and the youth\u003cbr\u003eWho ploughs in pride, nor ever doubts his toil;\u003cbr\u003eAnd death is far from him this sunny morn.\u003cbr\u003eWhy should we think of death when life is high?\u003cbr\u003eThe earth laughs all the day, and sleeps all night.\u003cbr\u003eEarth, give us food, and, after that, a grave;\u003cbr\u003eFor both are good, each better in its time.","brand":"Resounding Wind Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179824070896,"sku":"2940149093960","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149093960_p0.jpg?v=1763711755","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149093960","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}