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By Jack Joseph Smith

Qur mind has no injury in our work That would be slight in our song That is just a belief Easy as never done Breading ground is our rule Nostrels smelling sober Walking the same way as the rain While back between the sunshine 1 have We lift iron like the Bible showd known a 1 Bent as the fence, a sieow tipped Our dreams dream too a Doné't you see that looking up once any awhile has you thinking about all the birds being about the sme Looking at trouble is what is taught first After that, it is all a breeze Willows warn on back Ohio streets Better than buck eyed without difficulties Get to close to town and a brook is gone

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AI Interpretation

GPT

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.

Claude

A work-ethic stanza that claims 'We lift iron like the Bible showd known' and trusts the willow-warning to back-Ohio streets — one of several pages where Appalachia is held up as scripture.