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The Undecided Man
Air, "The Sugar Shop"
Tom Hood's Comic Annual for 1868
| Of all the small annoyances that weight our mental buoyances, No chaff or cold derision is so sad as indecision is — It's ruined me, it's plain it has — through life it's been my bane, it has, It's driven me insane, it has, as anyone can see! |
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| Oh my! the troubles and perplexities, Oh dear! that mar each little plan! Oh law! sufficient quite to vex it is, |
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| The short uncertain temper of an undecided man! | ||
| In bed each day a-dundering, I lie awake a-wondering (In sad uncertain doubt of it), by which side to get out of it, For all I ever knew of 'em have sides (or feet in lieu of 'em), They've generally two of 'em, as anyone can see! |
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| Oh my! the troubles and perplexities, Oh dear! that mar each little plan! Oh law! sufficient quite to vex it is, |
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| The short uncertain temper of an undecided man! | ||
| I never went a-marrying but single stopped a-tarrying, Though lots of girls I've known, I have; been introduced and shown, I have, But ne'er a one I've got of 'em-no single girl could spot of 'em, There's such a plaguey lot of 'em, as anyone can see! |
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| Oh my! the troubles and perplexities, Oh dear! that mar each little plan! Oh law! sufficient quite to vex it is, |
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| The short uncertain temper of an undecided man! | ||
| I've reached a decent time of life, and tired, nearly, I'm of life, Whom ought I to enquire of what illness to expire of? Most men appear to fall of 'em — the short of 'em, the tall of 'em, I cannot die of all of 'em, as anyone can see! |
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| Oh my! perplexed and always wondering, Oh dear! ill-natured people say, Oh law! I'm like in all my blundering, |
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| A donkey hesitating 'tween two packages of hay! | ||
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