He had served eighty masters. They'd have said <br />He 'worked for these employers' to earn bread. <br />And they, if they had heard him, would have sneered <br />To brand him inefficient whom they feared. <br />For to know eighty masters is to know <br />What sort of thing men who are masters grow.<br /><br />Lesbia Harford<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/he-had-served-eighty-masters-they-d-have-said/
