Word: fadeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which sought to encourage industrious habits among the young, though its advice, if followed now, would violate child labor laws. It urged to work unceasingly: to work while the dew was sparkling, in and "mid springing flowers"; to work through the "sunny noon" and till the "last beam fadeth". But it was a joyous hymn, except the line which anticipated the coming of the night "when man works no more". It is this sort of advice, but set to another tune, that Lenin has given to the Russians...
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