If I Could Arise and Travel Away by Robert Louis Stevenson

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If I could arise and travel away / Over the plains of the night and the day, / I should arrive at a land at last / Where all of our sins and sorrows are past / And we're done with the Ten Commandments.

The name of the land I must not tell; / Green is the grass and cool the well: / Virtue is easy to find and to keep, / And the sinner may lie at his pleasure and sleep / By the side of the Ten Commandments.

Income and honor, and glory and gold / Grow on the bushes all over the wold; / And if ever a man has a touch of remorse, / He eats of the flower of the golden gorse, / And to hell with the Ten Commandments.

He goes to church in his Sunday's best; / He eats and drinks with perfect zest; / And whether he lives in heaven or hell / Is more than you or I can tell; / But he's done with the Ten Commandments.

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