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H. F. S. [Music]
1. I would not be a monarch great; / With crown upon my head, / And Earls to wait upon my state, / In broidered robes of red. / For he must bear full many a care, / His toil is never done, / 'Tis better I trow behind the plough, / A Country Farmer's Son.