It's A Pretty Good Plan

--To Forget It!

If you see a tall fellow

ahead of the crowd,

A leader of men

marching fearless and proud,

And you know of a tale

whose mere telling aloud

Would cause this proud head

to in anguish be bowed,

It's a pretty good plan

to forget it!

If you know of a skeleton

hidden away

In a closet, and guarded

and kept from the day

In the dark, whose showing,

whose sudden display

Would cause grief and sorrow

and lifelong dismay--

It's a pretty good plan

to forget it!

If you know of a spot

in the life of a friend,

(We all have such spots

concealed, world without end),

Whose touching his heartstrings

would play on and rend

Till the shame of its showing

no grieving could mend,

It's a pretty good plan to forget it!

If you know anything

that will darken the joy

Of a man or a woman,

a girl or a boy,

That will wipe out a smile

or the least way annoy

A fellow, or cause

any gladness to cloy,

It's a pretty good plan

to forget it!

Author Unknown-From Ideals