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The crowing cock and chattering hen awakes

Dull sleepy clowns, who know the morning breaks.

In his Golden Age of Innocence—

The first fresh dawn then waked the gladdened race

Of uncorrupted man, nor blushed to see

The sluggard sleep beneath its sacred beam,

Then, his charming Summer morn:

Falsely luxurious, will not man awake,

And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy