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You will have to stop that soon, without doubt, 

 Or you will cause this nation's blood to all run out. 



Eor the lave of money, selfish, avaricious greed 

 Has caused other nations to suffer and to bleed ; 

 And some themselves to death they have bled, 

 And have become extinct, and now are dead. 



Unless you are more honest and liberal, yon will see, 

 The same as it has been with others, with you it will be. 

 If you are not more harmoniously united, every man, 

 For a house divided against itself cannot stand. 



You will bring destruction down on your own heads ; 

 In rapine, slaughter, and blood you will make your beds. 

 It is liable at any time now to break out. 

 And when it comes it will be like an avalanche, no doubt. 



No one can foretell in advance what will take place, 



It is easy to see ; it now stares you in the face. 



I mean just when the great crisis will come, 



That will be soon if there is nothing to prevent its being done. 



This avalanche, if they would, could be turned a different course. 

 I must quit now and go to work on the horse. 

 Poor old gray, a customer for you I have found ; 

 He cannot tell that you were ever lame or unsound. 



All I want for you is just what I paid last fall ; 

 The feed and work that I have done, j^ou are welcome to it all ; 

 And I will take you to the shop and shoe you all around new ; 

 This will probably be the last for you I shall have a chance to do. 



For all this long winter's work on you I am well paid ; 

 The lesson I have learned is enough, now I am not afraid. 

 All stiff horses on this principle can be cured, I find ; 

 The older they are, and of long standing the longer the time. 



Now I have got you shod all around, nice and new, 



I will bid 3'ou good-bye ; it may not be a final adieu. 



You look fine now ; good-bye, good-bye, poor old mare, 



I may come around again to see how you are. - • ■ 



