The Farmer’s Prayer + 

O Lord, incline Thine ear unto our prayer + 

And preachers’ intercession: + 

This strange discrimination is unfair⁠— + 

That’s our impression. + 

Our neighbors all about have copious rains + 

That fall on them like manna. + 

Send us the showers, Lord, and parch the plains + 

Of Indiana. + 

Upon the just and unjust, sayest Thou, + 

Thou’lt sprinkle without favor. + 

The sin of promise-breaking, all allow. + 

Could not be graver. + 

We’re just, and still our whistles are not wet, + 

And still ’tis growing hotter; + 

While every scamp in Michigan can get + 

His fill of water. + 

We ask but justice: treat us not with scorn; + 

Our comfort make less chilly; + 

And those who pray for an advance in corn⁠— + 

O smite them silly! + 

Let corn be plentiful, and cheap: our hops + 

Look well without a shower; + 

We’ve sold our wheat: that profitable crop’s + 

Beyond Thy power. + 