Experiment teaches, but common sense reaches
And tests the bright baubles in Dame Future’s
lap.
I’m telling you what Eph Landers did
The time that the critter lost his fid.
He was sort of a quick, impulsive man;
—When others walked, he always ran.
He never waited to calmly view,
But he got right up and slam-banged through.
Believed that the moments a feller took