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Всем совам в моей ленте посвящается.
Nature Know Best
I don't know exactly how long ago Hector was a pup,
But it was quite long ago, and even then people used to have to
start their day by getting up.
Yes, people have been getting up for centuries,
They have been getting up in palaces and Pullmans and
penitentiaries.
The caveman had to get up before he could go out and track the
brontosaurus,
Verdi had to get up before he could sit down and compose the
Anvil Chorus,
Alexander had to get up before he could go around being
dominant,
Even Rip Van Winkle had to get up from one sleep before he
could climb the mountain and encounter the sleep which has
made him prominent.
Well, birds are descended from birds and flowers are descended
from flowers,
And human beings are descended from generation after generation
of ancestors who got up at least once every twenty-four hours,
And because birds are descended from birds they don't have
to be forced to sing like birds, instead of squeaking
like rats,
And because flowers are descended from flowers they don't have to
be forced to smell like flowers, instead of like burning rubber
or the Jersey flats,
But you take human beings, why their countless generations of
ancestors who were always arising might just as well have spent
all their lives on their mattresses or pallets,
Because their descendants haven't inherited any talent for getting
up at all, no, every morning they have to be forced to get up
either by their own conscience or somebody else's, or alarm
clocks or valets.
Well, there is one obvious conclusion that I have always held to,
Which is that if Nature had really intended human beings to get up,
why they would get up naturally and wouldn't have to be
compelled to.
Ogden Nash
Всем совам в моей ленте посвящается.
Nature Know Best
I don't know exactly how long ago Hector was a pup,
But it was quite long ago, and even then people used to have to
start their day by getting up.
Yes, people have been getting up for centuries,
They have been getting up in palaces and Pullmans and
penitentiaries.
The caveman had to get up before he could go out and track the
brontosaurus,
Verdi had to get up before he could sit down and compose the
Anvil Chorus,
Alexander had to get up before he could go around being
dominant,
Even Rip Van Winkle had to get up from one sleep before he
could climb the mountain and encounter the sleep which has
made him prominent.
Well, birds are descended from birds and flowers are descended
from flowers,
And human beings are descended from generation after generation
of ancestors who got up at least once every twenty-four hours,
And because birds are descended from birds they don't have
to be forced to sing like birds, instead of squeaking
like rats,
And because flowers are descended from flowers they don't have to
be forced to smell like flowers, instead of like burning rubber
or the Jersey flats,
But you take human beings, why their countless generations of
ancestors who were always arising might just as well have spent
all their lives on their mattresses or pallets,
Because their descendants haven't inherited any talent for getting
up at all, no, every morning they have to be forced to get up
either by their own conscience or somebody else's, or alarm
clocks or valets.
Well, there is one obvious conclusion that I have always held to,
Which is that if Nature had really intended human beings to get up,
why they would get up naturally and wouldn't have to be
compelled to.
Ogden Nash