Swords and Plowshares/Love and Labor

​Love and Labor

Labor is the house that love dwells in.
—Russian Proverb

HOW shall I love my fellow men?
 With ineffectual talk?
By dropping honey from my pen,
 And sighing as I walk?

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Nay, rather love thy neighbor
 By working hard and well,
For in the house of labor
 It pleaseth love to dwell.

Love him with hammer, saw, and knife,
 With ax and pick and spade.
Love him and doubly bless his life
 With all thy hands have made.

Thus loving each his neighbor,
 Bear one another's load,
For in the house of labor
 Love maketh her abode.

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