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Charles Lamb - Why Not Do It, Sir, Today?
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"Why so I will, you noisy bird,
    This very day I`ll advertise you,
    Perhaps some busy ones may prize you.
  A fine-tongued parrot as was ever heard,
I`ll word it thus—set forth all charms about you,
And say no family should be without you."


  Thus far a gentleman addressed a bird,
Then to his friend: "An old procrastinator,
Sir, I am: do you wonder that I hate her?
    Though she but seven words can say,
    Twenty and twenty times a day
    She interferes with all my dreams,
    My projects, plans, and airy schemes,
    Mocking my foible to my sorrow:
    I`ll advertise this bird to-morrow."


    To this the bird seven words did say:
    "Why not do it, sir, to-day?"
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