Labor raises honest sweat;
Leisure puts you into debt.
Labor gives you rye and wheat;
Leisure gives you naught to eat.
Labor makes your riches last;
Leisure gets you nowhere fast.
Labor makes you bed at eight;
Leisure lets you stay up late.
Labor makes you swell with pride;
Leisure makes you shrink inside.
Labor keeps you fit and prime,
But give me
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He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage held but just Ourselves -
And Immortality.
We slowly drove - He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility -
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