Explore "Mr. Hammond's Parable. the Dreamer" by James Whitcomb Riley on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I. He was a Dreamer of the Days: / Indolent as a lazy breeze / Of midsummer, in idlest ways / Lolling about in the shade of trees.
The farmer turned -- as he passed him by / Under the hillside where he kneeled / Plucking a flower -- with scornful eye / And rode ahead in the harvest field / Muttering -- "Lawz! ef that-air shirk / Of a boy was mine fer a week er so, / He'd quit _dreamin'_ and git to work / And _airn_ his livin' -- er -- Well! _I_ know!"