Forget What The Other Man Hath

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Title:     Forget What The Other Man Hath
Author: Edmund Vance Cooke [More Titles by Cooke]

What do I care for your four-track line?
I have a country path;
And this is the message I've taken for mine:--
"Forget what the other man hath."

What do I care for your giant trees?
I'd rather whittle a lath,
And my motto helps me to take my ease;--
"Forget what the other man hath."

What do I care for your Newport beach?
A tub's as good for a bath.
And I keep my solace in constant reach:--
"Forget what the other man hath."

What do I care for your automobile?
I'm saving repairs and wrath,
My proverb goes well with an old style wheel;--
"Forget what the other man hath."

What do I care if you scorn my rime?
For this is its aftermath;--
It sounds so well I shall try, (sometime,)
To "forget what the other man hath!"

[The end]
Edmund Vance Cooke's poem: Forget What The Other Man Hath

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