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The poem
Thursday, November 02, 2017, 12:04

“If with pleasure you are viewing a work a man is doing,

If you like it or you love him, tell him now.

Don’t withhold your approbations until the parson makes orations,

As he lies with snowy lilies o’er his brow.

For no matter how you shout it, he won’t really care about it,

He won’t know how many teardrops you have shed.

If you think some praise is due him, now’s the time to pass it to him,

For he cannot read his tombstone when he’s dead.”

E. A. Brinninstool, quoted by Elmer Keith