Al de kinderliederen

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VII. The longest day.
De langste dag, III, blz. 146.

Almanack,

Lying pack,

Shuffling seer,

Cheat, that's clear!

But one longest day each year?

If you my advice would take:
You'll a hundred longest make.

He who first has left his bed,

Has the longest day;

He who learns with sharpest head,

Has the longest day;

He who 's well his lessons said,

Has the longest day.

This you can do, were it daily;

Three times hundred and three score,

Were it even five days more!

Then the year you'll spend right gaily,

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This believe and understand:

 

Do it but a hundred times,

 

And you'll shout in merry rhymes,

 

Gaily dancing hand in hand:

 

 

 

Almanack

 

Lies alack;

 

Shuffling seer!

 

Cheat, that's clear!

 

If you my advice will take:

 

You'll a hundred longest make!