Lines To Be Embroidered On A Bib

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The Child Is Father Of The Man, But Not For Quite A While

So Thomas Edison

Never drank his medicine;

So Blackstone and Hoyle

Refused cod-liver oil;

So Sir Thomas Malory

Never heard of a calory;

So the Earl of Lennox

Murdered Rizzio without the aid of vitamins or calisthenox;

So Socrates and Plato

Ate dessert without finishing their potato;

So spinach was too spinachy

For Leonardo da Vinci;

Well, it's all immaterial,

So eat your nice cereal,

And if you want to name your ration,

First go get a reputation.