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Show Just Folks ly Edgar A. vusit PARADOX OF RETIREMENT In forty years," he said, Til stop And all life'- tedious duties drop. . By night and day unto a plan tH woi k to be a gentlemen. -When poverty I need not dread All morning long I'll lie In bed. In thirty years from now," he said, "No clock shall ring me out ot bed. By then enough I ought to own To hear the factory whistles blown And tuck the covert 'neath my chin As all my friends the day begin. "In twenty years and next In ten," Said he: "I'll quit the haunU of men And play the care-free happy , shirk While others rise and go to ' work. Once done with want and things ; to do I'm-going to sleep the morning ; through." i But when at last he sat him i down Cast off by fortune and renown. And could all morning lie in bed He early chose to rise instead. Strange paradox! As old folks say I Few ran sleep long the time they I may. I |