Say, lad, have you things to do? <br />Quick then, while your day's at prime. <br />Quick, and if 'tis work for two, <br />Here am I man: now's your time. <br /> <br />Send me now, and I shall go; <br />Call me, I shall hear you call; <br />Use me ere they lay me low <br />Where a man's no use at all; <br /> <br />Ere the wholesome flesh decay <br />And the willing nerve be numb, <br />And the lips lack breath to say, <br />"No, my lad, I cannot come."<br /><br />Alfred Edward Housman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/say-lad-have-you-things-to-do/
