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HONESTY
Love-struck throstle in the pine,
With a clearer voice than mine,
You are not a smooth and grave
Time-defeated slave.
With a clearer voice than mine,
You are not a smooth and grave
Time-defeated slave.
Splendid! Sing for me again
Honest elemental pain.
Let a roadside pupil learn
How you dare to burn.
Honest elemental pain.
Let a roadside pupil learn
How you dare to burn.
Feathered scholar of the wild,
Nature's unaffected child,
Man, within his hand a rod,
Itched to be a god.
Nature's unaffected child,
Man, within his hand a rod,
Itched to be a god.
Thus he fell by rising. Health,
Truth and Peace were sold for Wealth.
Marketing, he glibly priced
Cattle, corn, and Christ.
Truth and Peace were sold for Wealth.
Marketing, he glibly priced
Cattle, corn, and Christ.
When he hears, as I hear now,
Radiant truth upon a bough,
Let him count himself a grave
Time-defeated slave.
Radiant truth upon a bough,
Let him count himself a grave
Time-defeated slave.
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