ROCKEFELLER AS POET
Mr Rockefeller, the great oil magnate, is the latest commercial genius to turn his
talents to poetry. Addressing a class of schoolboys a few weeks ago at Cleveland, Dir Rockefeller gave them the following advice in verse, which, he said, was his°owu composition: A wise old owl sat on an oak, The more he saw, the less he snoke; The more he spoke, the less ho heard— Why can’t you be like that wise old bird'-*
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Evening Star, Issue 14225, 26 November 1909, Page 7
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79ROCKEFELLER AS POET Evening Star, Issue 14225, 26 November 1909, Page 7
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