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Edgar Guest - The Complacent Slacker
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When he was just a lad in school,
He used to sit around and fool
And watch the clock and say:
"I can`t see that I`ll ever need
This stuff the teacher makes me read,
I`ll work no more to-day.
And anyhow it`s almost June
And school days will be over soon."

One time we played a baseball game,
And when a chance for stealing came,
On second base he stood,
And when we asked him why, he said:
"What was the use, they`re far ahead,
One run would do no good.
The game is almost over now,
We couldn`t win it anyhow."

The same old slacker still is he,
With men at war on land and sea,
And our lads plunging in it;
He spreads afar his old excuse.
"I`d like to help, but what`s the use,
The Allied troops will win it.
There`s nothing now to make us fret, there,
They`ll have it won before we get there."

The worst of slackers is the man
Who will not help whene`er he can,
But plays the idle rover,
And tells to all beset with doubt
There`s naught to be alarmed about,
The storm will soon be over.
Let no such dangerous person lead us,
To-day in France they sadly need us.
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