Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Aldershot | | Crimean Invalid Soldiers Reaping at Aldershot | | Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885) |
| | | REAP ye the ripe, ripe corn, | |
| Ye have reaped the green and the young, | |
| The fruits that were scarcely born,— | |
| The fibres that just were strung. | |
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| Ye have reaped, as the Destinies reap, | 5 |
| The wit and the worth of Man, | |
| The tears that we vainly weep, | |
| The deeds that we vainly plan. | |
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| Now reap as the generous life | |
| Of the pregnant Earth commands, | 10 |
| Each seed with a future rife, | |
| And the work of a thousand hands. | | | | |
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