"Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."

"Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, An…"

"We go in withering July To ply the hard incessant hoe; Panting beneath the brazen sky We sweat and grumble, but we go."

"O the Hoe, the Hoe, the Hoe, tied together with thongs; the Hoe, made from poplar, with a tooth of ash; the Hoe, made…"

"Hoe, digging miserably, weeding miserably with your teeth; Hoe, burrowing in the mud; Hoe, putting its head in the mu…"

"I build embankments, I dig ditches. I fill all the meadows with water. When I make water pour into all the reed-beds,…"

"I am the Hoe and I live in the city. No one is more honoured than I am. I am a servant following his master."

"I make a kiln for the boatman and heat pitch for him. By fashioning processional and boats for him, I enable the boat…"

"I plant a garden for the householder. When the garden has been encircled, surrounded by mud walls and the agreements …"

"After I have worked on the watercourse and the sluices, put the path in order and built a tower there on its banks, t…"