<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shorter Week</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I worked for fifty hours a week,<br>And someone said to me,<br>'Don't be a serf! Throw off your chains,<br>And show the world you're free!'<br>So I cut down my working hours<br>And found, upon the whole,<br>The leisure time I had to spare<br>Good for my body's carking care,<br>And better for my soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I worked for forty hours a week,<br>And someone said to me,<br>'Release your bonds, you shackled slave!<br>Show all the world you're free!'<br>So I reduced my working hours<br>And found in leisured lull,<br>The more I sought to play, the more<br>Amusement had become a bore,<br>And life was rather dull.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I worked for twenty hours a week,<br>And someone said to me<br>'Awake, you mutt! Snap out of it,<br>And show the world you're free!'<br>So I cut out my working hours<br>And found that joy had flit.<br>Upon black melancholia's brink,<br>I sometimes used to sit and think<br>And sometimes merely sit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I worked for not one hour a week,<br>And someone said to me,<br>'You lazy coot! Arise and shine!<br>You call this being free?'<br>So I resolved I'd better far<br>Rejoin the toiling mob.<br>But when I rose and looked around,<br>To my intense digust I found<br>Someone had pinched my job.</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357991" data-title="The Shorter Week de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="I worked for fifty hours a week, And someone said to me, 'Don't be a serf! Throw off your chains, And show the world you're free!' So I cut down my working hours And found, upon the whole, The leisure time I had to spare Good for my body's carking..."></div> </div> </div>

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