“In books, or work, or healthful play,
Let my first years be past,
That I may give for every day
Some good account at last.”

—  Isaac Watts

Song 20: "Against Idleness and Mischief".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)

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English hymnwriter, theologian and logician 1674–1748

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