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    Work

    by Charles Lamb
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    Who first invented work, and bound the free
    And holyday-rejoicing spirit down
    To the ever-haunting importunity
    Of business in the green fields, and the town--
    To plough, loom, anvil, spade--and oh! most sad
    To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood?
    Who but the Being unblest, alien from good,
    Sabbathless Satan! he who his unglad
    Task ever plies 'mid rotatory burnings,
    That round and round incalculably reel--
    For wrath divine hath made him like a wheel--
    In that red realm from which are no returnings:
    Where toiling, and turmoiling, ever and aye
    He, and his thoughts, keep pensive working-day.
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