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WILLIE'S RECITATION, by                    
First Line: To do what you can
Last Line: And another of stone
Subject(s): Fortune;labor & Laborers


TO DO what you can
As well as you can,
Is a mighty good plan
For 'most any man.

To work all the day,
To work every day,
Is the only sure way
Of getting your pay.

If I work all the day
And give up my play,
I surely shall climb
To fortune some time.

On that distant day
I'll not want to play;
I'll only keep climbing all of the time.

When fortune is ripe
I'll reap what I've sown:
A column of type
And another of stone.





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