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Title: The Better Job
Author: Edgar A. Guest [ More Titles by Guest]
If I were running a factory I'd stick up a sign for all to see; I'd print it large and I'd nail it high On every wall that the men walked by; And I'd have it carry this sentence clear: "The 'better job' that you want is here!" It's the common trait of the human race To pack up and roam from place to place; Men have done it for ages and do it now; Seeking to better themselves somehow They quit their posts and their tools they drop For a better job in another shop. It may be I'm wrong, but I hold to this-- That something surely must be amiss When a man worth while must move away For the better job with the better pay; And something is false in our own renown When men can think of a better town. So if I were running a factory I'd stick up this sign for all to see, Which never an eye in the place could miss: "There isn't a better town than this! You need not go wandering, far or near-- The 'better job' that you want is here!"
[The end] Edgar A. Guest's poem: Better Job ________________________________________________
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