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<p>Industry will our talents improve,<br />
Deficiencies from our abilities remove.<br />
With energies noble it is in accord,<br />
It brings to all its highest reward.
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<p>As long as one lives and stirs all around,<br />
There’s food and dress for him to be found.<br />
Industry is said to be a health maker,<br />
We find it in selling the Six Studebaker.
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<p>Our labor should always be well directed,<br />
No slighting for cause to be rejected.<br />
Genius may all great works begin,<br />
Labor’s the thing that makes them win.
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<p>This rule is good for most every man,<br />
The more we do, the more we can.<br />
More busy we are, more leisure we have,<br />
For play to serve as our safety valve.
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<p>The mind of man has been so made,<br />
That happiness in him will quickly fade,<br />
If slothful habits he does acquire,<br />
And industry is not his chief desire.
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<p>Fortune comes through diligence and skill,<br />
There is always a way where there is a will,<br />
Industry of hand as well as of brain,<br />
Makes everything easy that’s worthy of gain.
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<p>Industry travels the road with joy,<br />
Duty is also along to convoy.<br />
There is no possible way to progress,<br />
If we no love for labor possess.
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<p><span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 11em;"> <i>—The Car with Character.</i></span>
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<p>When you want see gals look fine,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> You mus' go up dere,</span><br />
An' you'll see them drinkin' wine<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> An' all sorts o' beer :</span><br />
There you'll see them walkin' out,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Each wid a young man,</span><br />
Watch them strollin' all about,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Flirtin' all dem can.</span>
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<p>Policeman dat's in his beat,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Policeman widout,</span><br />
Policeman wid him gold teet'<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Shinin' in him mout';</span><br />
Policeman in uniform<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Made of English blue,</span><br />
P'liceman gettin' rather warm,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Sleuth policeman too.</span>
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<p>When you want to meet a frien',<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Ride up to Papine,</span><br />
Where dere's people to no en',<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Old, young, fat an' lean:</span><br />
When you want nice gals fe court<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> An' to feel jus' booze',</span><br />
Go'p to Papine as a sport<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Dress' in ge'man clo'es.</span>
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<p>Ef you want lost póliceman,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Go dere Sunday night,</span><br />
Where you'll see them, every one<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Lookin' smart an' bright :</span><br />
Policeman of every rank,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Rural ones an' all,</span><br />
In de bar or on de bank,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Each one in them sall.</span>
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<p>When you want hear coarsest jokes<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Passin' rude an' vile,</span><br />
Want to see de Kingston blokes,—<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Go up dere awhile:</span><br />
When you want hear murderin'<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> On de piano,</span><br />
An' all sorts o' drunken din,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Papine you mus' go.</span>
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<p>When you want a pleasant drive,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Tek Hope Gardens line;</span><br />
I can tell you, man alive,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> It is jolly fine:</span><br />
Ef you want to feel de fun,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> You mus' only wait</span><br />
Until when you're comin' do'n<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> An' de tram is late.</span>
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<p>When you want meet a surprise,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Tek de Papine track;</span><br />
Dere some things will meet you' eyes<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Mek you tu'n you' bac:</span><br />
When you want to see mankind<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Of "class "family</span><br />
In a way degra' them mind,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Go 'p deh, you will see.</span>
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<p>When you want to be jus' broke,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Ride up wid your chum,</span><br />
Buy de best cigars to smoke<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> An' Finzi old rum:</span><br />
Stagger roun' de sort o' square<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> On to Fong Kin bar ;</span><br />
Keep as much strengt' dat can bear<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> You do'n in de car.</span>
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<p>When you want know Sunday bright,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Tek a run up deh</span><br />
When 'bout eight o'clock at night<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Things are extra gay :</span><br />
Ef you want to see it cram',<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Wait tell night is dark,</span><br />
An' beneat' your breat' you'll damn<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Coney Island Park.</span>
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<p>Policeman on plain clo'es pass,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Also dismissed ones;</span><br />
See them standin' in a mass,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Talkin' 'bout them plans:</span><br />
Policeman "struck off de strengt'<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Physical unfit,"</span><br />
Hear them chattin' dere at lengt'<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> 'Bout a diffran' kit.</span>
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<p>In these noncommittal, personal-impersonal expressions of appearance,<br />
the eye knows what to skip;<br />
the physiognomy of conduct must not reveal the skeleton;<br />
“a setting must not have the air of being one,”<br />
yet with X-ray-like inquisitive intensity upon it, the surfaces go back;<br />
the interfering fringes of expression are but a stain on what stands out,<br />
there is neither up nor down to it;<br />
we see the exterior and the fundamental structure—<br />
captains of armies, cooks, carpenters,<br />
cutlers, gamesters, surgeons and armorers,<br />
lapidaries, silkmen, glovers, fiddlers and ballad singers,<br />
sextons of churches, dyers of black cloth, hostlers and chimney-sweeps,<br />
queens, countesses, ladies, emperors, travelers and mariners,<br />
dukes, princes and gentlemen, <br />
in their respective places—<br />
camps, forges and battlefields,<br />
conventions, oratories and wardrobes,<br />
dens, deserts, railway stations, asylums and places where engines are made,<br />
shops, prisons, brickyards and altars of churches—<br />
in magnificent places clean and decent,<br />
castles, palaces, dining halls, theaters and imperial audience chambers.
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