Round and round and round it goes; what it means there’s no one knows.
Wind blows north and then blows south, Streams run sea-ward to their mouths.
All seems vainly just to boil. What’s the worth of ceaseless toil?
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Diligence won’t make it known, nor has data ever shown:
rightness rests on those who own. Knowledge has been overblown.
Here’s the mantra to intone, “Knowing more means more you groan.”
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Work itself is hateful waste, think of how you spend your days.
Since you can’t keep what you earn, might as well just let it burn.
Foolish heirs each take a share, scattering it who knows where?
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Massive wealth, that vanity, offers false security.
Spendthrift daughter, lazy son, soon will see it gone and done.
Why exist as Mammon’s slave, just to leave it to a knave?
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Source: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23
Text: David Alexander, 2022 CC BY-SA NC 4.0
Tune: Ratisbon, Public Domain
Score: https://www.smallchurchmusic.com/Score_PDF/ChristWhoseGlory-Ratisbon.pdf
Audio: www.smallchurchmusic.com Used by Permission
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