If you’re waking call me early, To be or not to be!
The curfew must not ring to-night! Oh, woodman, spare that tree!
Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on! And let who will be clever,
The boy stood on the burning deck, but I go on forever!”
His elocution was superb, his voice and gesture fine;
His schoolmates all applauded as he finished the last line.
“I see it doesn’t matter,” Robert thought, “What words I say,
So long as I declaim with oratorical display!”
—London Tid-Bits.