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Ah ! Ah ! ministers and officers ,
Reverently attend to your public duties .
The king has given you perfect rules ;—
Consult about them and consider them .
Ah ! Ah ! ye assistants ,
It is now the end of spring ;
And what have ye to seek for ?
[Only] how to manage the new fields and those of the third year .
How beautiful are the wheat and the barley ,
Whose bright produce we shall receive !
The bright and glorious God .
Will in them give us a good year .
Order all our men ,
To be provided with their spuds and hoes :—
Anon we shall see the sickles at work .