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Motto heartening, inspiring, / Framed above my pretty *desk, / Never Shelley, Keats, or Byring* / Penned a phrase so picturesque! / But in me no inspiration / Rides my low and prosy brow -- / All I think of is vacation / When I see that lucubration:
DO IT NOW
When I see another sentence / Framed upon a brother's wall, / Resolution and repentance / Do not flood o'er me at all / As I read that nugatory / Counsel written years ago, / Only when one comes to borry / [Footnote: Entered under the Pure License of / 1906.] / Do I heed that ancient story:
TELL HIM NO
Mottoes flat and mottoes silly, / Proverbs void of point or wit, / "KEEP A-PLUGGIN' WHEN IT'S HILLY! " / "LIFE'S A TIGER: CONQUER IT! " / Office mottoes make me weary / And of all the bromide bunch / There is only one I seri- / Ously like, and that's the cheery:
GONE TO LUNCH