H1B (Shanty/Work Song)

Epigrammata 84

Work hard all your life / only to be remembered / selling out, Vivek!

Having cast their nets abroad
When the bays are full of cod
To fish them here must cost too much
And by this must ere so be such--
The grapes are rotting on the vine
The stitch not made now merits nine
To find a one who works, they seek
Eighty hours in a week --
Nonesuch are there, so to speak.