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LABOR.

WORK AND SONG.

From labor health, from health contentment Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound, springs.

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She feels no biting pang the while she sings ; Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. Contemplation.

There was a jolly miller once,

Lived on the river Dee;

R. GIFFORD.

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And for my means, I'll husband them so well

MACDUFF. I know this is a joyful trouble to They shall go far with little.

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But yet, 't 'is one.

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MACBETH. The labor we delight in physics pain. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

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Hamlet, Acti. Sc. 3.

SHAKESPEARE.

OVERWORK.

NOBILITY OF LABOR.

Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore When Adam dolve, and Eve span,

task

Who was then the gentleman? *

Does not divide the Sunday from the week? What might be toward, that this sweaty haste

J. BALL.

SHAKESPEARE.

Doth make the night joint-laborer with the day? Tyler's Rebellion. Hume's History of England, Vol. i. Ch. 17,

Hamlet, Acti. Sc. 1.

"Lines used by John Ball, to encourage the Rebels in Wat Note 8," says BARTLETT.

The Star-spangled hanner.

Osagicon you see

you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly so proudly we haild at the twilight's last gleaming, has field. Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the clouds of the fight,

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POEMS OF PATRIOTISM

AND FREEDOM

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