They gave him twenty minutes
But he finished up in ten.
Oh, there's a prince of speakers
And a servant unto men.
His diction wasn't very much,
He hemmed and hawed a bit;
But he spoke a lot of sense,
And, after that, he quit.
At first we sat plumb paralyzed,
Then cheered and cheered again;
For they gave him twenty minutes
And he finished up in ten.
Brevity in speeches and sermons is praiseworthy. So is this poem.
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