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Now I always have preserved a certain attitude	A
Quite definite in reference to Work	B
'Tis futility concealing	C
That I have the Weary Feeling	C
And tendency perennial to shirk	B
Still I always strive to recognise the principle	D
That earnest steady toil is ever best	E
So that having recognised it	F
Not to say idealised it	F
I would fain lay down my pen and take a rest	E
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For you understand to recognise a principle	D
Is patently a virtue in itself	G
After that you have the option	H
Of its strenuous adoption '	-
Or the placing of it gently on a shelf	G
For myself I'm forced to own that though my theory's	I
A thing of beauty even in the rough	J
Dearth of cash supplies good reasons	K
With the Passing of the seasons	K
That this simple recognition's not enough	J
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For it's Work Toil Graft	L
It's accomplishment that matters in the end	M
And the act of recognition	H
Even by a politician	H
Has not ever yet been known to make or mend	M
And the man who holds a lamp post up without much fret or fuss	N
He may 'recognise a principle' and feel quite virtuous	N
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We have read about the lives in ancient history	O
Of the Doers back in ev'ry age and clime	P
And their method of reforming	C
Was reflecting and performing	C
More especially the latter every time	P
But the man who sat and recognised the principles	Q
And calmly left accomplishment to Fate	R
May have won a reputation	H
As a saviour of the nation	H
But his name has been suppressed at any rate	R
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This has clearly been the rule since far antiquity	O
Before a thing is done a man must act	S
And all progress lay in knowing	C
What to do and straightway going	C
And just working till reform became a fact	S
But to stand on distant nodding terms with principle	D
Has been a most unprofitable trick	T
You may scan historic pages	U
And right down throughout the ages	U
Mere reflection never laid a single brick	T
	-
For it's Graft Toil Work	B
It's performance that is needed in the land	V
Recognition by the student	W
Of the principle is prudent	W
But it never yet has shifted any sand	V
And Hell is full of futile folk who scorned the verb 'to do '	-
Who 'recognised the principle' but failed to see it through	X

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

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