Saving Time

Ah, if we did not have to eat

     And daily spend that hour or two,

How much more blessed time we’d have

     To do the things we’d like to do!

And what a lot of dire expense

     We all might save, and what a treat

We busy mortals might enjoy,

     If we were not obliged to eat.

And then the time that’s lost in sleep,

     Another waste we should regret;

If we could only utilize

     Those hours what returns we’d get!

We have so very much to do

     Our duties just ahead will keep;

O, if we could but use the time

     We nightly waste in foolish sleep!

And the time we spend in chaff,

     The time that curls away in smoke.

If we could use, life would not be

     Quite such a sad, financial joke!

And then again, if we could work

     The hours we eat and sleep at will,

If we could plug all day and night

     O, what a lot of fun we’d kill!

May 7, ‘10