Adventurers and Tinkerers
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Adventurers and tinkerers
Built our wondrous nation;
Then rent-seekers and ol’ fat cats
Reduced all to stagnation.
While those who risk, they may well lose;
But, some of us will gain.
There’s no way we may safely snooze,
Nor live free of all pain.
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Adventurers they crossed the earth
Seeking markets out,
Latching on to things of worth
And not held back by doubt.
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Through trial and error things get made,
Each novel new creation;
This is a spur to brand new trade
And needs no explanation.
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But how great tides they ebb and flow,
For tides we know must turn;
For fortune can both come then go,
Where folk they do not learn.
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