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Oh! the earth is full of sinning / And of trouble and of woe, / But the devil makes an inning / Every time we say it's so. / And the way to set him scowling, / And to put him back a pace, / Is to stop this stupid growling, / And to look things in the face.
If you glance at history's pages, / In all lands and eras known, / You will find the buried ages / Far more wicked than our own. / As you scan each word and letter. / You will realise it more, / That the world to-day is better / Than it ever was before.