Do It Now!

If you’ve got a job to do, Do it now!

If it’s one you wish were thru, Do it now!

If you’re sure the job’s your own,

Don’t hem and haw and groan—Do it now!

Don’t put off a bit of work, Do it now!

It doesn’t pay to shirk, Do it now!

If you want to fill a place

And be useful to the race,

Just get up and take a brace—Do it now!

Don’t linger by the way.  Do it now!

You’ll lose if you delay.  Do it now!

If the other fellows wait,

Or postpone until it’s late,

You hit up a faster gait—Do it now!

-       New York Sun[1]

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[1] The New York Sun began publication in 1833, and continued until 1950. A second newspaper by this name began in 2002, but closed down in 2008.