And teach man how to sing God's praise.

And now I'll tell you what you teach

In downright honest English speech.

'You teach the ground-down starving man

That Squire's greed's Jehovah's plan.

You get his learning circumvented

Lest it should make him discontented

(Better a brutal, starving nation

Than men with thoughts above their station),

You let him neither read nor think,