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PROCRASTINATION by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON

First Line: BENT ON BUILDING A HOUSE, WHILE AS YET A YOUNG MAN
Last Line: THE SEXTON, WHO HOUSED HIM AT ONCE WITH HIS SPADE.
Subject(s): PROCRASTINATION;
BENT on building a house, while as yet a young man,
Visto reach'd his old age ere he settled the plan;
When perfection the plan, still his taste so refined,
He could never make choice of a site to his mind;
Death grew impatient, and call'd to his aid
The Sexton, who housed him at once with his spade.



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