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He asked me of my friend a clever man	A
Such various talent business journalism	B
A pen that might some day have sent out 'leaders'	C
From our greatest newspapers Yes all this	C
All this I said And yet he will not rise	C
He'll stay a comp a printer all his life	D
I said Just that a workman all his life	D
But as my questioner was a business man	A
One of the sons of Capital a sage	E
Whose practicality saw I can suppose	C
Quite to his nose tip even his finger ends	C
I vouchsafed explanation This young man	A
My friend was born and bred a workman All	F
His heart and soul And men have hearts and souls	C
Other than those the doctor proses of	G
The parson prates of and both make their trade	H
Were centred in his comradeship and love	G
His friends his 'chums' were workmen and the girl	I
He wooed and made a happy wife and mother	J
Had heart and soul like him in whence she sprung	K
Observe now When he came to think and read	L
He saw it seemed to him he saw in what	M
Capitalists Employers men like you	N
Think and call 'justice' in your inter dealings	C
Some slight mistakes I fancy he'd say 'wrongs'	C
Whereby his order suffered So he wonders	C
'Cannot we change this ' And he tries and tries	C
Knowing his fellows and adapting all	F
His effort in the channels that they know	O
You understand He's 'only an Unionist '	P
Now for the second point This man believes	C
That these mistakes these wrongs we'll pass the word	Q
Spring from a certain thing called 'competition'	O
Which you and I know is a God given thing	R
Whereby the fittest get up to the top	S
That's I or you and tread down all the others	C
Well this man sees how by this God given thing	R
He has the chance to use his extra wits	C
And clamber up he sees how others have	T
Like you or me my father's father's father	J
Was a market gardener and I trust a good one	O
He sees moreover how perpetually	U
Each of his fellows who has extra wits	C
Has used them as the fox fallen in the well	V
Used the confiding goat and how the goats	C
More and more wallow there and stupefy	T
Robbed of the little wit the hapless crowd	W
Had in their general haplessness Well then	O
This man of mine This is against all law	X
Human divine and natural I admit	Y
Prefers to wallow there and not get out	Z
Except they all can I've made quite a tale	A2
About what is quite simple Yet 'tis curious	C
As I see you hold Now frankly tell me will you	N
What do you think of him He is a fool	B2
He is a fool There is no doubt of it	Y
But I am told that it was some such fool	B2
Came once from Galilee and ended on	O
A criminal's cross outside Jerusalem	B
And that this fool he and his criminal's cross	C
Broke up an Empire that seemed adamant	C2
And made a new world which renewed again	O
Is Europe still	D2
He is a fool And it was some such fool	B2
Drudged up and down the earth these later years	C
And wrote a Book the other fools bought up	E2
In tens of thousands calling it a Gospel	F2
And this fool too and the fools that follow him	G2
Or hold with him why he and they shall all	F
End in the mad house or the gutter where	H2
They'll chew the husk of their mad dreams and die	I2
For what are their follies but dreams They have done nothing	R
And never will	D2
One moment I have just a word to say	C
How comes it tell me friend six weeks ago	O
A 'comp ' was sent a packing for a cause	C
His fellows thought unjust and that same night	J2
Or rather the next morning in comes one	O
To tell you quite politely that unless	C
That 'comp ' was setting at his frame they feared	K2
One of our greatest newspapers would not go	O
That day a harbinger of light and leading	R
To gladden and instruct its thousands And	L2
If I remember right it did and so did he	U
That wretched 'comp ' set at his frame and does	C
How came it also that three months ago	O
Your brother the shipowner sacked a man	O
Out of his ship and bade him go to hell	V
And in the evening up came two or three	U
Discreetly asking him to state the cause	C
And when he said he'd see them with the other	J
Videlicet in hell they said they feared	K2
Unless the other came thence if he was there	H2
And was upon his ship to morrow morning	R
It would not sail It did not sail till noon	O
And he sailed with it	Y
But this is all beside the point Our 'comp '	P
Who sweats there and who will not write you 'leaders'	C
Except to help a friend who's fallen ill	D2
Why he beyond a doubt he is a fool	B2

Francis William Lauderdale Adams

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