Ceres' in the knight time

A farm's a place for heroic yeomen,

For robust women and hired nomen,

For mighty oxen, fearsome cows,

Busy bees and ripping plows,

For beavers building by the lagoon

And yapping dogs who die too soon,

And horses proud and obsolete

And tractors roaring in the heat

And wildcats stalking out their pray

And owls calling end of day.

But in that wide diversity

Of virtues far beyond the city,

The hero all his fellows follow

Is the scarecrow, piked, pecked and hollow.

LEADERSHIP, n. A novel complaint. Avant-garde grief.