Classic Poem

Young Timothy Timid is cautious and wealthy;
He has heard that bicycle owners are healthy;
And being himself but a weak-chested youth,
He bought him a wheel,—and a beauty, in truth.
“A-pity,” he said, as he viewed it with pride,
“To scar it and batter it learning to ride;
And worse (what is likely) to batter myself.
I cannot do better than hire with my pelf
Some cycler to ride in my stead, and be rid
Of all danger and worry and work.” So he did.