There should be no monotony
In studying your botany;
It helps to train
And spur the brain—
Unless you haven’t got any.
It teaches you, does Botany,
To know the plants and spot any,
And learn just why
They live or die—
In case you plant or pot any.
You learn, from reading Botany,
Of wooly plants and cottony
That grow on earth,
And what they’re worth,
And why [...]
The Joy of Life by Berton Braley:
I’d rather risk gamely And lose for my trying Than grind around tamely —A cog in the mill. I’d rather fail greatly [...]Whether the People be led by the Lord,
Or lured by the loudest throat;If it be quicker to die by the sword
Or cheaper to die by voteThese are the things we have dealt with once,
[...]Weak and puny, small and frail,
Helpless he with tooth or nail,
In a world of fang and claw
Where sheer power makes the law.
Into battle he had gone
With the shaggy mastodon,
With the cruel beasts of prey
Snarling in their lust to slay,
Thirsting for the taste of blood;
He has fought with fire and flood,
With a heart and soul elate
Warred [...]
Why shouldn’t the soul of a mortal be proud?
Life goes, it is true, like a swift-flying cloud
But while it is going and ere he has died
A man may do many things worthy of pride
The high and the humble, the meek and the brave,
Are all of them destined in time for the grave,
But while they are [...]
We’ve loaded him with a lot of taxes
And rules and codes but there’s something funny;
In spite of the way his burden waxes
The son-of-a-gun is making money!
Whenever he’s given a boost to trade
We’ve taken an extra tribute off it,
But still the villain is undismayed,
The son-of-a-gun has shown a Profit!
We grind out daily a brand [...]
Back of the beating hammer
By which the steel is wrought,
Back of the workshop’s clamor
The seeker may find the Thought,
The Thought that is ever master
Of iron and steam and steel,
That rises above disaster
And tramples it under heel!
The drudge may fret and tinker
Or labor with lusty blows,
But back of him stands the Thinker,
The clear-eyed man who knows;
For [...]
It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.-- Benjamin Disraeli
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