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MORAL LESSONS.
BY AMOS KEATER.
How doth the little busy flea
Improve each awful jump;
And mark her progress as she goes,
By many an itching lump!
Improve each awful jump;
And mark her progress as she goes,
By many an itching lump!
How skillfully she does her “sell;”
How neat she bites our backs,
And labors hard to keep her well
Beyond the reach of whacks!
How neat she bites our backs,
And labors hard to keep her well
Beyond the reach of whacks!
I, too, in games of chance and skill,
By Satan would be led;
For if you 're always sitting still,
You cannot get ahead.
By Satan would be led;
For if you 're always sitting still,
You cannot get ahead.
To lively back-biting and sich,
My great ambition tends;
Thus would I make me fat and rich
By living off my friends.
My great ambition tends;
Thus would I make me fat and rich
By living off my friends.
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