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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
This page sounds like a work-song or credo, insisting that labor, belief, and song are bound together without sentimentality.
The tone is declarative and collective. The page feels less interested in individual confession than in staking out a communal ethic where work and song are both forms of survival.
A collective work-credo insisting 'Our mind has no injury in our work' and that 'Breading ground is our rule,' with bodies bent by labor - 'We lift iron like the Bible showd known, / Bent as a fence.' The page teaches that 'Looking at trouble is what is taught first' before life becomes 'a breeze,' and warns of erosion by town in 'Get to close to town and a brook is gone,' keeping 'showd,' 'Nostrels,' and 'sme' as written.