Why Not Do It, Sir, To-Day?

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Title:     Why Not Do It, Sir, To-Day?
Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb]

"Why so I will, you noisy bird,
This very day I'll advertise you,
Perhaps some busy ones may prize you.
A fine-tongu'd 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 address'd 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?"

[The end]
Charles Lamb's poem: Why Not Do It, Sir, To-Day?

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