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Which do you think is most alive?
Old Si Hicks
Some fellers call me lazy — well
Maybe I am, but if I be
It’s up to them same folks to tell
Where they’ve got th’ best of me,
What if I loaf a bit and sing
Myself to sleep out in the sun —
Has ever God said anything
Aginst a feller’s havin’ fun?
The banker toils away, and counts
The dollars as they ramble in;
I take a sunlit path that mounts
Up where the winds begin to spin.
The rich man from his weary toil
Gets more than his two hands can hold;
I, freely from the common soil
Grab violets and marigold.
Lazy? I reckon that is true;
I loaf sometimes while others strive
But friends, I ask, betwixt us two
Which do you think is most alive —
The man who bends his head so low
He sees no sun along the sod,
Or he who, puttering, lazy, slow,
Has time to love the work of God?
— Ex.
from Saturday Press 1:7 (November 5, 1927)
Exhibit 7 in
(34,977). Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1930. No. 91.
J. M. Near, Appellant, vs The State of Minnesota ex rel. Floyd B. Olson, County Attorney of Hennepin County, Minnesota.
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota. Filed April 25, 1930. : 259-260
Harvard (Law) copy/scan (via google books) : link
interesting (and often repugnant) material here, from what was a significant case re: prior restraint of the press.