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<div class="poem"> <p><span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 1em;">The tired cars go grumbling by,</span><br /> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;">The crazy, lazy cars,</span><br /> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 1em;">And the same milk-carts go rumbling by</span><br /> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;">Under the dying stars.</span><br /> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 1em;">A lonely newsboy hurries by,</span><br /> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;">Humming a recent ditty;</span><br /> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 1em;">Red streaks strike through the gray of the sky,</span><br /> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> The dawn comes to the city.</span> </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>God made all things to live by pair,<br /> The beasts of field and birds of air<br /> He made to make no bad mistakes,<br /> But man he left to make some breaks. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>When trouble brews twixt man and wife,<br /> As troubles do in married life,<br /> Take our advice and seek a breaker,<br /> The best for you is a Studebaker.<br /> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 20em;"> — The Car with Character.</span> </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>The creatures dumb of all the earth,<br /> By Nature’s laws are giving birth.<br /> But laws of God for good of man,<br /> By men are broken out of ban. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>But married life will have its flaws,<br /> Till states alike have divorce laws.<br /> They’ve got to come to save the home,<br /> Or things will be just like Old Rome. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>Married life is a funny thing,<br /> We take the fling with a wedding ring.<br /> With some its one continuous fight,<br /> They kick and scratch and sometimes bite. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>To man his married life’s a boon,<br /> If it is sweet and right in tune.<br /> But fights and scraps and family jars,<br /> Are worse than some old motor cars. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>For men who fail to keep in sight,<br /> The laws of God for doing right,<br /> The laws of man are also made,<br /> With price to pay if you evade. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>Words so sweet and words of leaven,<br /> Are those of Mother, Home and Heaven.<br /> When these we learn and get them clear,<br /> No more divorce we then will fear. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>When man does choose his mate for life,<br /> He would avoid so much of strife,<br /> If he would use his common sense,<br /> And not so often be so dense. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>Somebody scoffed it can't be done,<br /> Seven per cent to every last one.<br /> No compound rate or broker's fee,<br /> Will send you sure into bankruptcy.<br /> We have done the thing that couldn't be done. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>Somebody gibed it can't be done,<br /> This thing and that and the other one.<br /> So we took off our coat and defied the whole ring,<br /> And we started to sing as we tackled the thing.<br /> We have done the thing that couldn't be done. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>Somebody sneered it can't be done,<br /> Carry your paper for each mother's son.<br /> You can't collect, your loss run high,<br /> Let broker and banker cut the pie.<br /> We have done the thing that couldn't be done. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>Somebody mocked it can't be done,<br /> Back with you name the cars that 'ave run.<br /> Your profits will in them surely go,<br /> The public be d—d so take them low.<br /> We have done the thing that couldn't be done. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p><span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Some people live neath clouds of dread</span><br /> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 5em;"> And never see a single star.</span><br /> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 3em;"> Happier, they would be, if dead</span><br /> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 5em;"> And riding in a Studebaker Car.</span> </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>Somebody said it can't be done,<br /> Salaries to all and commissions none.<br /> We smiled till tears were in our eyes,<br /> For can't is a word we do despise.<br /> We have done the thing that couldn't be done. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p><span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 11em;"> <i>—The Car with Character.</i></span> </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>Somebody croaked it can't be done,<br /> Service by night without the sun.<br /> Expenses great will bring you ruin,<br /> We heard them not with all their wooin'.<br /> We have done the thing that couldn't be done. </p> </div>  +
<div class="poem"> <p>With the brain at the wheel<br /> The eye on the road<br /> And the hand to the left<br /> Pleasant be your progress<br /> Explorer producer stoic after your fashion<br /> Change<br /> Change to<br /> To what speed to what underwear<br /> Here is a town here a mill<br /> Nothing surprizes you old horseface<br /> Guzzle guzzle goes the siren<br /> And the world will learn to admire and applaud your concern <br /> with the parts your firmness with employees and your justice to your friends.<br /> Your pride will not be overridden<br /> Your faith will go unmortified. </p> </div>  +
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<div class="poem"> <p>four wheels of my car<br /> along the wet road until </p> </div>  +