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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 21, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 21.

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ALWAYS IN A HURRY

By Priscilla Leonard

I know a little maiden who is always in a hurry; She races through her breakfast to be in time for school, She scribbles at her desk in a hasty sort of flurry, And comes home in a breathless whirl that fills the vestibule.
She hurries through her studying, she hurries through her sewing, Like an engine at high pressure, as if leisure were a crime; She's always in a scramble, no matter where she's going; And yet — would you believe it? — she never is in time.
It seems a contradiction until you know the reason; But I'm sure you'll think it simple, as I do, when I state That she never has been known to begin a thing in season, And she's always in a hurry because she starts too late.
— Priscilla Leonard, in the Churchman.