Classic Poem

To make it glad with a goodly crop:
Even so One Wiser deals with me: —
Amen, say I: if He choose to lop
Branch after branch of my leafed tree,
In its own ripe season more fruit shall be.

Tenfold fruit in the time of fruit,
In the time of corn and wine and oil,
Sound at the core, firm at the root;
Repaying the years and years of toil,
Repaying the blood that fed the soil.