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The pig is taught by sermons and
To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles
Judibras
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'O
RY life,' we cry, ' O dreary life
'And still the generations of the
Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and

I
NK we are too ready with
In this fair world of God's
Had we no

I taught myself to live simply and wisely,to look at the sky and pray to God,and to wander long before eveningto tire my superfluous worries
When the burdocks rustle in the ravineand the yellow-red rowanberry cluster droopsI compose happy ver...