<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416847" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shoemaker</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou Poet, who, like any lark,<br>Dost whet thy beak and trill<br>From misty morn till murky dark,<br>Nor ever pipe thy fill:<br>Hast thou not, in thy cheery note,<br>One poor chirp to confer--<br>One verseful twitter to devote<br>Unto the Shoe-ma-ker?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At early dawn he doth peg in<br>His noble work and brave;<br>And eke from cark and wordly sin<br>He seeketh soles to save;<br>And all day long, with quip and song,<br>Thus stitcheth he the way<br>Our feet may know the right from wrong,<br>Nor ever go a stray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soak kip in mind the Shoe-ma-ker,<br>Nor slight his lasting fame:<br>Alway he waxeth tenderer<br>In warmth of our acclaim;--<br>Aye, more than any artisan<br>We glory in his art<br>Who ne'er, to help the under man,<br>Neglects the upper part.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But toe the mark for him, and heel<br>Respond to thee in kine--<br>Or kid--or calf, shouldst thou reveal<br>A taste so superfine:<br>Thus let him jest--join in his laugh--<br>Draw on his stock, and be<br>A shoer'd there's no rival half<br>Sole liberal as he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, Poet, hail the Shoe-ma-ker<br>For all his goodly deeds,--<br>Yea, bless him free for booting thee--<br>The first of all thy needs!<br>And when at last his eyes grow dim,<br>And nerveless drops his clamp,<br>In golden shoon pray think of him<br>Upon his latest tramp.</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=416847" data-title="The Shoemaker de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Thou Poet, who, like any lark, Dost whet thy beak and trill From misty morn till murky dark, Nor ever pipe thy fill: Hast thou not, in thy cheery note, One poor chirp to confer-- One verseful twitter to devote Unto the Shoe-ma-ker? At early dawn ..."></div> </div> </div>

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