Part I - Manning, Planting, Keeping
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Summary
Manning, Planting, Keeping
Thou hast a lap full of seed,
And this is a fine country.
Why dost thou not cast thy seed,
And live in it merrily?
Shall I cast it on the sand
And turn it into fruitful land?
For on no other ground
Can I sow my seed,
Without tearing up
Some stinking weed.
William Blake, Poems from the Rossetti Manuscript, I (c. 1793)
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- Freedom BoundLaw, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865, pp. 19 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010