As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Earned with the sweat of my brows.

Earned with the sweat of my brows.

But when dread Sloth, the Mother of Doom, steals in,
And reigns where Labour's glory was to serve,
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But when dread Sloth, the Mother of Doom, steals in,
And reigns where Labour's glory was to serve,
Then is the day of crumbling not far off.

Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and
thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot read more

Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and
thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it,
and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the
starvation of his children--that torture is something that
private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

Let no one till his death
Be called unhappy. Measure not the work
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Let no one till his death
Be called unhappy. Measure not the work
Until the day's out and the labour done.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.