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Oh, the strength of the toil of those twenty years, with father, and master, and men! / And the clearer brain of the business man, who has held his own for ten: / Oh, the glorious freedom from business fears, and the rest from domestic strife! / The past is dead, and the future assured, and I'm in the prime of life!
She bore me old, and they kept me old, and they worked me early and late; / I carried the loads of my selfish tribe, from seven to thirty eight: / I slaved with dad, in the dust and heat, that my brothers might enjoy -- / But I rest to-day in the prime of life, and I'll live and die a boy!