Maintain An Edge lyrics

Years ago to do work manual

Required free time to rest

But it was then important

To keep a keen edge too

A dull edge is a tearing one

And a sharp one that cuts

So rest is then work honing

Maintaining a whetted gleam

Filing or stoning a blade

Out of the bluntness of toil

Keeping a task's mastery

Its senses disciplined so

Whether it be a farm scythe

Or a resident rotary mower

The ditch digger's shovel

Or the lumberjack's axe

The time afforded precision

Brings ease in earned efforts

And pride in those rewards

With rugged hands grimly given