Ohio Farmer

Bury this old Illinois farmer with respect.

He slept the Illinois nights of his life after days of work in

Illinois cornfields.

Now he goes on a long sleep.

The wind he listened to in the cornsilk and the tassels, the wind that

combed his red beard zero mornings when the snow lay white on the

yellow ears in the bushel basket at the corncrib,

The same wind will now blow over the place here where his hands must

dream of Illinois corn.