Sheep + 

This advantage hath the sheep, + 

Two crops each yoar from them you reap; + 

You get big price for tender lamb, + 

And crop of wool from shearing dam. + 

Industrious wife can spin the yarn, + 

And knit the socks, or old ones darn; + 

Or weave it up in her own loom, + 

And thrift to wealth it soon will bloom. + 

Or if to weaving she is loath, + 

She can sell wool and buy her cloth, + 

Or buy her hose knit by machine, + 

And life enjoy like to a queen. + 

But very oft the farmer’s wife + 

Has to work hard through all her life; + 

If husband has to drive the ploughs, + 

The wife perhaps must milk the cows. + 

And she too may churn the butter, + 

And no grumble she doth utter; + 

Though she doth work as hard as slave, + 

All trials she doth nobly brave. + 

Oft times large family she doth raise, + 

Her virtues they have cause to praise; + 

A guardian angel o’er her young, + 

When they were feeble round her clung. + 