LIFTERS AND LEANERS by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 3, 1898

LIFTERS AND LEANERS.

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

No; THE two kinds of people on earth I mean, Are the people who lift, and the people who lean.

Wherever you go, you will find the world's masses Are always divided in just these two classes.

And, oddly enough, you will find, too, I ween, There is only one lifter to twenty who lean.

In which class are you? Are you easing the load Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the road?

Or are you a leaner, who lets others bear Your portion of labor and worry and care?

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.