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To my Native Land	A
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My native land whose fertile ground	B
Neptune and Amphitrite bound	B
Britain of trade the chosen mart	C
The seat of industry and art	C
May never luxury or minister	D
Cast over thee a mantle sinister	D
Still let thy fleet and cannon's roar	E
Affright thy foes and guard thy shore	E
When Continental States contend	F
Be thou to them a common friend	F
Imperial rule may sway their land	A
Here Commerce only takes her stand	A
Diffusing good o'er all the world	G
The flag of Commerce where unfurled	G
Stands with fair plenty in her train	H
And wealth to bless her bright domain	H
For where the merchant sails to trade	I
Fair is the face of Nature made	I
Glad is the king in regal dome	J
Glad is the rustic in his home	J
The flocks and culture glad the fields	K
And Peace her boon of plenty yields	K
For Nature meant that man should share	L
The goods abounding everywhere	L
And barter corn and oil and wine	M
The iron ore and twisted twine	M
Cotton and silk deep bedded coal	N
Be interchanged from pole to pole	N
So each land's superfluities	K
Should bind lands by commercial ties	K
And carry from abounding stores	K
The luxuries of distant shores	K
The monarch and the rustic eat	O
Of the same harvest the same wheat	O
The artizan supplies the vest	P
The mason builds the roof of rest	P
The self same iron ores afford	Q
The coulter of the plough and sword	Q
And all from cottage to the throne	R
Their common obligation own	R
For private and for public cause	K
Protecting property and laws	K
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The animals were once distressed	P
By bitter famine and addressed	P
Themselves to man to find them food	S
And bound themselves in servitude	S
For whilst they starved or whilst they fed	T
Man had his lasting hoards of bread	T
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The cat demanded leave to sue	K
Well Puss says Man and what can you do	K
Scatter the rats and mice said Tib	U
And guard your grain in sack or crib	U
Foe am I of the genus Mus	K
Absurdly called 'ridiculus '	-
Dan sop called him so not I	V
Feed me and every mouse shall die	V
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Then to the starving hound Man said	T
Well sir and how can you earn bread	T
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My name is Trusty said the hound	B
And ne'er was I untrusty found	B
I am not used by self applause	K
To pander to my famished jaws	K
But I am well known if you please	K
To ask my character of these	K
My province is to watch and keep	W
The house and fold the whilst you sleep	W
And thief and wolf alike shall know	X
I am your friend and am their foe	X
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Ah said the Man we rarely find	Y
Trust uncorrupted with mankind	Y
Such services indeed transcend	F
Pray be my comrade and my friend	F
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Then to the drone he turned and said	T
Well sir can you sir earn your bread	T
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I will explain sir if I can	Z
I am said drone a gentleman	A2
Mechanics earn their bread not I	V
Where'er there honey is I fly	V
But truly it would not be fit	B2
I should submit to toil for it	B2
I visit peaches plums and roses	K
Where Beauty on a couch reposes	K
I seldom fail the placid hour	D
When she takes bohea in the bower	D
Nor do I gather stores of pelf	X
My object is to please myself	X
And if I lay to aught pretence	K
It is to ease and elegance	K
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So Mr Drone and have you done	A2
Then from that peach I pray begone	A2
If you won't work you shall not eat	O
That is with me so quit that seat	O
If all the world were such as you	K
We all should starve when north winds blew	K
But he who with industrious zeal	C2
Contributes to the common weal	C2
Has the true secret understood	D2
Of private and of public good	D2
Be off with you He raised his hand	A
Which the vain insect dared withstand	A
It smote the parasite of pride	E2
And there the idler fell and died	E2

John Gay

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