A Poem by Graham C. Miller

 Found this poem,  written by Graham Miller of our Club in a Rotarian Magazine from 1964...
 

The Tyrant

It takes your money to pay your dues,

It makes you do jobs you can't refuse,

It preaches to give as well as to take,

And makes you join boards for Charity's sake.

It makes competitors like one another

And expects you to act like the world was your brother.

The worst of it all, the part you can't fight,

It makes you do good, just because it is right.

Yes, Rotary's a tyrant, there's no question of it,

It first makes you work, and then makes you love it;

But stop to consider, when all's said and done,

Without it life just wouldn't be as much fun.

 

And this is the point, and one we all know --

In life, if you'd reap, then first you must sow.

And the ratio is this -- like a day to a minute

You'll get more from Rotary than you'll ever put in it.

Graham C. Miller

Rotarian from Coral Gables, FL