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When the dawn with rosy finger,
Dissipates the eastern gloom,
You and your machine must linger
Silent in your silent room.
Dissipates the eastern gloom,
You and your machine must linger
Silent in your silent room.
Grinder, if you are not willing,
When invited, to desist,
You must pay your fortieth shilling,
Wretched instrumentalist!
When invited, to desist,
You must pay your fortieth shilling,
Wretched instrumentalist!
Failing that,—a fate unkinder—
You must languish in a gaol
One laborious fortnight: grinder,
Pray, oh pray that they may fail.
You must languish in a gaol
One laborious fortnight: grinder,
Pray, oh pray that they may fail.
