User:Shāntián Tàiláng

Hello, folks.

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A block message I made up

A poem titled "Of the truthful George and the Observing Lad"
Today we had a holiday because George Washington is dead. You know he was The only man that never told a lie Which makes it all the worse he had to die. When teacher wrote it on the board and said How old he was and how long he was dead And asked what he died of, Joe Bensen says "I guess he must have died of lonesomeness." And when she said he couldn't lie and that's The truth, why Willy Pearson he said rats If that was true he's in an awful fix Was George when he got into politics. source

A poem titled "Of the Diagnosis of Unwonted Industry"
He's awful small and is not much for looks But my, he's awful awful smart in books And never whispers in his seat and so He goes right on when we don't pass, you know. And when examination comes he makes A perfect in his studies and he takes His books home nights and does the chores and then He studies all his lessons until ten Or twelve o'clock and when vacation comes He's sad because there's no such thing as sums.

Nobody knows what makes him study so But Henry Bemus said it looks as though Some secret crime was eating out his heart And that is why he always keeps apart From all of us and goes to school alone As though he hopes perhaps he can atone For what he's done. And Henry said he heard In olden times how men don't speak a word But beat their breasts and wear coarse clothes to show Their true repentance for their deeds, you know.

And Henry thinks he may have drownded cats Or tied a can to some good dog and that's The reason why he studies hard to keep Remorse away until he goes to sleep. And Henry said you're often apt to find Some terrible deed of wickedness behind Great righteousness. And in the dead of night You look up in his room and see a light Where he's at work and, oh, you're awful glad You've never done a deed that's very bad. source