<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416558" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>As My Uncle Used To Say</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've thought a power on men and things,<br>As my uncle ust to say,--<br>And ef folks don't work as they pray, i jings!<br>W'y, they ain't no use to pray!<br>Ef you want somepin', and jes dead-set<br>A-pleadin' fer it with both eyes wet,<br>And _tears_ won't bring it, w'y, you try _sweat_,<br>As my uncle ust to say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They's some don't know their A, B, Cs,<br>As my uncle ust to say,<br>And yit don't waste no candle-grease,<br>Ner whistle their lives away!<br>But ef they can't write no book, ner rhyme<br>No ringin' song fer to last all time,<br>They can blaze the way fer the march sublime,<br>As my uncle ust to say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whoever's Foreman of all things here,<br>As my uncle ust to say,<br>He knows each job 'at we 're best fit fer,<br>And our round-up, night and day:<br>And a-sizin' _His_ work, east and west,<br>And north and south, and worst and best<br>I ain't got nothin' to suggest,<br>As my uncle ust to say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</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=416558" data-title="As My Uncle Used To Say de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="I've thought a power on men and things, As my uncle ust to say,-- And ef folks don't work as they pray, i jings! W'y, they ain't no use to pray! Ef you want somepin', and jes dead-set A-pleadin' fer it with both eyes wet, And _tears_ won't bring i..."></div> </div> </div>

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