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Ah! Ah! ministers and officers, |
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Reverently attend to your public duties. |
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The king has given you perfect rules; -- |
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Consult about them and consider them. |
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Ah! Ah! ye assistants, |
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It is now the end of spring; |
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And what have ye to seek for? |
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[Only] how to manage the new fields and those of the third year. |
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How beautiful are the wheat and the barley, |
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Whose bright produce we shall receive! |
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The bright and glorious God. |
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Will in them give us a good year. |
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Order all our men, |
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To be provided with their spuds and hoes: -- |
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Anon we shall see the sickles at work. |
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by The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, © Copyright 2003
by Anne Kinney and the University of Virginia