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Expectation

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Toil within your labour’s sentence

Work and stress that servant’s frame

Tiring mind and aching struggle

At rest the conscience can proclaim

That you are honest in endeavour

Soul be clean, devoid of sloth

So true in value and in moral

A victim of that social oath.

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Christopher Dawson

Tue 29th Dec 2009 23:27

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