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WORKING AND IDLING.
While some attempt the task on stirks,
And some on mules or asses,
The man, that best could do it, shirks
The gallop up Parnassus.
And some on mules or asses,
The man, that best could do it, shirks
The gallop up Parnassus.
His Pegasus unsaddled feeds
Beside him in a hollow,
Close by the rocky path that leads
Up to thy heights, Apollo!
Beside him in a hollow,
Close by the rocky path that leads
Up to thy heights, Apollo!
And idling in the shade he lurks,
While they tug at their bridles;
They well may call their efforts Works;
And what are his but Idyls?
While they tug at their bridles;
They well may call their efforts Works;
And what are his but Idyls?
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