Husbandman.

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CAYENNE.
JAS. L. ORR.

1. Now patrons free of each degree,
Who fill this spacious hall,
We'll join in joyful harmony,
In chorus one and all.
We'll sing of heaven's gracious plan
To cheer the good and brave;
The true and honest husbandman
Can never be a slave.

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CHORUS.
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah,
The bravest on the sod,
Is the true and honest husbandman,
The noblest work of God.

2. He turns his furrows deep and straight,
His honest bread to gain;
With heart elate doth he await
The sunshine and the rain.
In faith he scatters wide the seed,
He dreams the promise true;
And trusts that Heaven, for his need,
Will send the kindly dew.

CHORUS.

3. And when the harvest crowns his pains,
Who then so glad as he,
As, grateful, thinking o'er his gains,
He bends a thankful knee.
With heart so light, his eyes so bright,
With glances kindly range,
O'er brothers of the mystic rite,
The Patrons of the Grange.

CHORUS.