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COUNSEL TO THE WORLDLY-WISE by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN

First Line: GO A-FOOT, AND GO A-HEAD!
Last Line: THINK OF THOMAS DAVIS!

Go A-Foot and go A-head!
That's the way to prosper;
Whoso must be carriage-led
Suffereth serious loss per
Day in health as well as wealth,
By that laziness with which
Walkers have from birth warred;
And ere long grim Death by stealth
Mounts the tilbury, and the rich
Loller tumbleth earthward!


Also keep your conscience pure-
Neither lie nor borrow;
He who starves to-day, be sure
Always carves to-morrow.
March in front; don't sulk behind;
Dare to live, though sneering groups
Dub you rara avis-
"Serve your country-love your kind,"
And whene'er your spirit droops,
Think of Thomas Davis.




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