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Virtue its own reward? Alas! / And what a poor one, as a rule! / Be Virtuous, and Life will pass / Like one long term of Sunday-school. / (No prospect, truly, could one find / More unalluring to the mind.)
The Model Child has got to keep / His fingers and his garments white; / In church he may not go to sleep, / Nor ask to stop up late at night. / In fact he must not ever do / A single thing he wishes to.