Social Commentaries

Ensilage

by James McIntyre 1827–1906

From Poems (1889)

Social Commentaries

The farmers now should all adorn
A few fields with sweet southern corn,
It is luscious, thick and tall,
The beauty of the fields in fall.

For it doth make best ensilage,
For those in dairying engage,
It makes the milk in streams to flow,
Where dairymen have a good silo.

The cow is a happy rover
O'er the fields of blooming clover,
Of it she is a fond lover,
And it makes milk pails run over.

MLA

McIntyre, James. “Ensilage.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/mcintyre/61/.

Chicago

McIntyre, James. “Ensilage.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/mcintyre/61/.

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