Poem by Ogden Nash

Lines to Be Embroidered on a Bib

OR 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.

1. Everybody Tells Me Everything
2. To My Valentine
3. The Perfect Husband
4. A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty
5. What Almost Every Woman Knows Sooner or Later

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