Preaching

My preacher's eyes I've never seen
Though the light in them may shine;
For when he prays, he closes his,
And when he preaches, mine.

The Owl

There was an old owl who lived in an oak;
The more he heard, the less he spoke.
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
Why aren't we like that wise old bird!

If No One Ever Marries Me

If no one ever marries me -
And I don't see why they should,
For nurse says I'm not pretty,
And I'm seldom very good -

If no one ever marries me
I shan't mind very much,
I shall buy a squirrel in a cage
And a little rabbit-hutch;

I shall have a cottage near the wood,
And a pony all my own,
And a little lamb, quite clean and tame,
That I can take to town.

And when I'm getting really old -
At twenty-eight or nine -
I shall buy a little orphan-girl
And bring her up as mine.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Sir, I admit your general rule
That every poet is a fool;
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.

Mattew Prior

Pedigree

The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.

Emily Dickinson

INCOME TAX

Something I shall never learn,
It fills me with grave doubt,
As to why it is called 'Return',
When I have to pay it out.

LOANS

Most banks will gladly grant a loan,
In fact they often speed it;
The only thing that they require
Is proof that you don't need it.

F.G. Kernan

The Hardship of Accounting

Never ask of money spent,
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.

Robert Frost

After Emerson

Lives of great men all remind us
As we o'er their pages turn,
That we too may leave behind us
Letters that we ought to burn.

Anonymous

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