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What have we all forgotten, at the break of the seventh year? / With a nation born to the ages and a Bad Time borne on its bier! / Public robbing, and lying that death cannot erase -- / "Private" strife and deception -- Cover the bad dead face! / Drinking, gambling and madness -- Cover and bear it away -- / But what have we all forgotten at the dawn of the seventh day?
These are the years of plenty -- years when the "tanks" are full -- / Stacked by the lonely sidings mountains of wheat and wool. / Country crowds to the city, healthy, shaven and dressed, / Clothes to wear with the gayest, money to spend with the best. / Grand are the lights of the cities, carnival kings in power -- / But what have we all forgotten, in this, the eleventh hour?