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It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.
It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.
 Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword 
on me.  
 Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword 
on me. 
 When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, 
strike your fill.  
 When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, 
strike your fill. 
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out 
of thy sleep?
 Yet a little read more 
 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out 
of thy sleep?
 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the 
hands to sleep:
  So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,
   and thy want as an armed man. 
 The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love 
that of children.  
 The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love 
that of children. 
For violent fires soon burn out themselves.
For violent fires soon burn out themselves.
To a brave man every soil is his country.
To a brave man every soil is his country.
 O wad some power the giftie gie us
 To see oursel's as ithers see us!
  It wad read more 
 O wad some power the giftie gie us
 To see oursel's as ithers see us!
  It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
   And foolish notion;
    What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
     And ev'n devotion!