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Rudyard Kipling

The Moral

(Author Unknown)

YOU mustn’t groom an Arab with a file.
You hadn’t ought to tension—spring a mule.
You couldn’t push a brumby fifty mile
And drop him in a boiler—shed to cool.
I’ll sling you through six counties in a day.
I’ll hike you up a grade of one in ten.
I am Duty, Law and Order under way,
I’m the Mentor of banana—fingered men!
I will make you I know your left hand from your right.
I will teach you not to drink about your biz.
I’m the only temperance advocate in sight!
I am all the Education Act there is!

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