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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357886" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Germ Chaser</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knew a careful lady once<br>Who read a book by Dr. Bunce,<br>A wise authority on wogs<br>That roam about in dust and fogs;<br>Indeed, he pointed out, all air,<br>However pure, held germs somewhere;<br>They clung to door-knobs, crawled on floors,<br>Inhabited small change in scores.<br>In fact, there scarcely was a thing<br>To which some foul germ did not cling,<br>Ready to leap and work its will<br>To some poor luckless human's ill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lady closed the book and sighed,<br>And all content within her died.<br>This pleasant earth for her became<br>The haunt of wogs, and life a game<br>Of hide and seek. She joined the band<br>Of grim germ-chasers in the land.<br>She scoured and scrubbed, examined food -<br>Which, thus far, was all to the good -<br>But when she strove to disinfect<br>Her home, 'twas worse than mild neglect;<br>No hospital smelled half so bad,<br>And then, I fear, she went quite mad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her eye took on a maniac glare;<br>She saw germs lurking everywhere.<br>She hung up mottoes such as this:<br>'Ten thousand germs in every kiss.'<br>She would not handle coins or take<br>Another's hand for friendship's sake;<br>Scarce dared to eat or draw a breath<br>For fear she might imbibe her death.<br>She sprayed her husband, heels to head,<br>With crude carbolic till he fled;<br>But, since she had means of her own,<br>She much preferred to live alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When going into town one day,<br>Wrapped up and muzzled in a way<br>Quite microbe-proof, from foot to crown,<br>A passing motor knocked her down.<br>And where she's sleeping soundly now<br>The germs have got her, anyhow…<br>The point of this sad tale is here:<br>Better be dead than live in fear;<br>Better live like a Stone Age man<br>Before germ-consciousness began;<br>Better take chances, seems to me,<br>Than try to dodge what you can't see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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Who read a book by Dr. Bunce,
A wise authority on wogs
That roam about in dust and fogs;
Indeed, he pointed out, all air,
However pure, held germs somewhere;
They clung to door-knobs, crawled on floors,
Inhabited small c..."></div>
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