So there's my year, the twelvemonth duly told br Since last I climbed this brow and gloated round br Upon the lands heaped with their wheaten gold, br And now again they spread with wealth imbrowned - br And thriftless I meanwhile, br What honeycombs have I to take, what sheaves to pile? br br I see some shrivelled fruits upon my tree, br And gladly would self-kindness feign them sweet; br The bloom smelled heavenly, can these stragglers be br The fruit of that bright birth and this wry wheat, br Can this be from those spires br Which I, or fancy, saw leap to the spring sun's fires? br br I peer, I count, but anxious is not rich, br My harvest is not come, the weeds run high; br Even poison-berries, ramping from the ditch br Have stormed the undefended ridges by; br What Michaelmas is mine! br The fields I sought to serve, for sturdier tilage pine. br br But hush - Earth's valleys sweet in leisure lie; br And I among them wandering up and down br Will taste their berries, like the bird or fly, br And of their gleanings make both feast and crown. br The Sun's eye laughing looks. br And Earth accuses none that goes among her stooks.