724 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



" And when they've filled the land with wealth, 



With scarcely room for more, 

 The drones will take and pile it up 



And keep it all in store. 

 The workingmen will stand and gaze 



And raise the silly cry: 

 1 Because we have produced so much, 

 We've got to starve and die.' 



" And those who neither toil nor spin 



Have plenty and to spare; 

 They seem to claim a lawful right 



To other people's share. 

 Where e'er I went the workingmen 



Ne'er stood compact together. 

 But, ruled by knaves, in party droves, 



Made faces at each other. 



" When Providence is kind to us, 



And sends abundant fruits, 

 We don't go round and cry 'hard times,* 



We don't, you bet your boots. 

 We go to work, as monkeys should, 



And gather in our store; 

 Each monkey gets what he has earned 



And does not ask for more. 



" But men have quite revised our plan, 



They plunder one another; 

 Each one stealing all he can, 



And brother robbing brother. 

 And then they go to church and pray 



For God to give them grace; 

 'If not, O Lorti, then give us gold, 



We'll take that in its place.'" 



I felt that I was out of place, 



In such a crowd as that; 

 But knowing that they told the truth, 



I felt a little flat. 

 The meeting wr.s Hjourned sine die 



And I was left behind 

 To ponder o'er what I had heard 



About the human kind. 



