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SONG OF LIBERTY AND PARENTAL ADVICE.
Come help me sing the morning song,
While woods are sweetly blooming,
And bears the joyful strain along,
That happier days are coming.
While woods are sweetly blooming,
And bears the joyful strain along,
That happier days are coming.
The gloom has left the light behind,
With all the vassals shouting,
We are no more in chains confined,
And see the devil pouting.
With all the vassals shouting,
We are no more in chains confined,
And see the devil pouting.
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Sing on, rejoicing not to cease,
Regard no stint of money,
It now becomes a land of peace,
To flow with milk and honey.
Regard no stint of money,
It now becomes a land of peace,
To flow with milk and honey.
Sing on, be every man his own,
If free who dare to perish?
Nor work your fingers to the bone,
But work with ease and flourish.
If free who dare to perish?
Nor work your fingers to the bone,
But work with ease and flourish.
Let other people's goods alone,
But raise yourself a plenty;
To delve and cultivate your own,
And beg not one in twenty.
But raise yourself a plenty;
To delve and cultivate your own,
And beg not one in twenty.
How dare you touch another's spoil,
When you have strength to labor?
Oh, then be glad to dig and toil,
And let alone your neighbor.
When you have strength to labor?
Oh, then be glad to dig and toil,
And let alone your neighbor.
Rather be able then to give,
Than take their acquisition,
For care and puddles is to live,
In competent condition.
Than take their acquisition,
For care and puddles is to live,
In competent condition.
We recommend to all good care,
And keep all round you studying,
When health is good and weather fair,
Your work will be quite cheering.
And keep all round you studying,
When health is good and weather fair,
Your work will be quite cheering.
Your wife may well be busy too,
Averting all starvation,
Keep clean herself, her house and you,
And thus support her station.
Averting all starvation,
Keep clean herself, her house and you,
And thus support her station.
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Thus every man may live that way,
Upon his own plantation,
Without the cost to steal or kill,
But gladden his relation.
Upon his own plantation,
Without the cost to steal or kill,
But gladden his relation.
Close labor works you up to wealth,
It makes your wife to love you;
If sick it oft restores to health,
Tho' idlers may reprove you.
It makes your wife to love you;
If sick it oft restores to health,
Tho' idlers may reprove you.
Thus did a man his son advise,
Let not your friends deceive you,
If in the world you wish to rise,
Take care of what I give you.
Let not your friends deceive you,
If in the world you wish to rise,
Take care of what I give you.
With fire but slightly touch good toe,
It soon will blaze all over,
Thus prudent all things lively go,
And all past loss recover.
It soon will blaze all over,
Thus prudent all things lively go,
And all past loss recover.
Keep all your business right before,
And clear up all around you,
Thus will they thrive and gather more,
And nothing will confound you.
And clear up all around you,
Thus will they thrive and gather more,
And nothing will confound you.
Ne'er think hard to bear your brunt,
Your work will compensate you,
The knife of labor whet if blunt,
And fortune will await you.
Your work will compensate you,
The knife of labor whet if blunt,
And fortune will await you.
Another lesson you would give,
Hold in your feet from rambling,
By straggling you can never live,
By sporting nor by gambling.
Hold in your feet from rambling,
By straggling you can never live,
By sporting nor by gambling.
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Take not the bottle for your friend,
For this will sure deceive you,
And this you may in truth depend,
Both health and wealth will leave you.
For this will sure deceive you,
And this you may in truth depend,
Both health and wealth will leave you.
It robs you of your rest at night,
Take money fame and pleasure,
Which never can the loss requite,
But drains the fount of pleasure.
Take money fame and pleasure,
Which never can the loss requite,
But drains the fount of pleasure.
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