Men of the honest heart

Men of the honest heart,

Men of the stalwart hand,

Men, willing to obey,

Thence able to command:

Men of the rights withheld,

Slaves of the power abused,

Machines cast to neglect,

When your freshness has been used.

Ye labourers in the vineyard,

We call you to your toil!

Though bleak may be the furrows,

The seed is in the soil.

'Tis not to raise a palace,

Where Royalty may dwell,

Nor build for broken hearts

The petty parish hell;

'Tis not to turn the engine,

'Tis not the field to till,

That, for the meed

you

gain,

Might be a desert still!

'Tis not to dig the grave,

Where the dying miner delves;

'Tis not to toil for

others

But to labour for

yourselves.

And nobler coin will pay you,

Than Kings did e'er award

To the men, they hired to murder,

The brothers they should guard.

No glittering stars of knighthood,

Shall soil your simple vest--

But the better star of honour

Brave heart in honest breast.

No changing Norman titles,

To hide your English name--

But the better one of

freemen,

With its blazoning of fame.

Up! Labourers in the vineyard!

Prepare ye for your toil!

For the sun shines on the furrows,

And the seed is in the soil.