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The Miller of Glocestershire.
OF all the callings and ths trades
Which in our land abound,
The miller’s is as useful sure,
As can on earth be found.
The farmer he manures the land;
Or else what corh could grow?
The plougnman cuts the furrow deep
Ere he begins to sow.
And though no wealth he has, excepted
The labour of hi- hands;
Yet honest industry’s as good,
As houses or as lands.
The thrasher he is useful too
To ail who like to eat;
Unless he winnow’d well the corn,
The chaif would spoil the wheat.
But vain would be the farmer’s care,
And vain the thrashers toil;
