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Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.
Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.
 A warke it ys as easie to be done
 As tys to saye Jacke! robys on.  
 A warke it ys as easie to be done
 As tys to saye Jacke! robys on. 
 When Adam dalfe and Eve spane
 So spire if thou may spede,
  Where was then the pride read more 
 When Adam dalfe and Eve spane
 So spire if thou may spede,
  Where was then the pride of man,
   That nowe merres his mede? 
 I am nothing and to nothing tend,
 On earth I nothing have and nothing claim,
  Man's noblest read more 
 I am nothing and to nothing tend,
 On earth I nothing have and nothing claim,
  Man's noblest works must have one common end,
   And nothing crown the tablet of his name. 
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil 
days come not, nor the years read more 
 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil 
days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I 
have no pleasure in them;
 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not 
darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
  In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the 
strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because 
they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened. 
 Joy to the Toiler!--him that tills
 The fields with Plenty crowned;
  Him with the woodman's axe that read more 
 Joy to the Toiler!--him that tills
 The fields with Plenty crowned;
  Him with the woodman's axe that thrills
   The wilderness profound. 
 Hard toil can roughen form and face,
 And want call quench the eye's bright grace.  
 Hard toil can roughen form and face,
 And want call quench the eye's bright grace.