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A WORKING SMITH ALL OTHER TRADES EXCELS, by                    
Last Line: "honest, and just, and loyal to the crown"
Subject(s): Blacksmiths;country Life


A WORKING smith all other trades excels,
In useful labour wheresoe'er he dwells;
Toss up your caps, ye sons of Vulcan, then,
For there are none of all the sons of men
That can with the brave working smiths compare;
Their work is hard, and jolly lads they are.
What though a smith looks sometimes very black,
And sometimes gets but one shirt to his back,
And that is out at elbows, and so thin
That you through twenty holes may see his skin;
Yet when he's drest and clean, you all will say,
That smiths are men not made of common clay.
They serve the living, and they serve the dead,
They serve the mitre and the crowned head,
They all are men of honour and renown,
Honest, and just, and loyal to the crown.





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