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Lifter and Learners

SStarrs

Published on July 10, 2015

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I was sent this great poem.

There are two kinds of people on earth today

Just two kinds of people, no more I say.

Not the good or the bad, for 'tis well understood

That good are half bad and the bad are half good.

Not the rich or the poor, for to know a man's wealth

You must first know the state of his conscience and health,

Not the happy or sad, for the swift flying years

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Bring to each man his gladness and to each man his tears.

No, the two kinds of people on earth I mean

Are the people who lift and the people who lean,

And wherever you go, you will find the world's masses

Are always divided into just these two classes;

And oddly enough you will find too, I ween

There is only one lifter to twenty who lean,

In which class are you - are you easing the load

Of the toilsome toiler who toils down the road,

Or are you a leaner, who makes others bear

Your share of the labor and worry and care?

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