Chapter 90 end with a famous verse

Of all the closing methods, nothing is more acceptable to the audience than humor or poetry.In fact, it's almost ideal if you can find the right phrase or verse to end yours with.It will produce the most suitable flavor and atmosphere of dignity, will express your unique style, will produce beauty.Sir Harry Lauder, President of Rotary Clubs of the World, concluded his speech in Edinburgh to a delegation of Rotary Clubs of America, which held their annual convention there: "When you go home, some of you will send me a postcard. If you don't send it to me, I will send you one. You can tell at a glance that it is from me, because that No stamps on it. (Laughter) But I'll write something on it:

"Spring goes to summer, autumn goes to winter, "There is a reason for the prosperity of all things. "But there is one thing that is ever fresh as the morning dew, "That is my eternal love and affection for you." This short poem fits Harry Lauder's personality well, and certainly with the pomp of his speeches.Therefore, this ending is very suitable for him.It would seem not only abrupt, but even absurd if a normally serious and prim Rotarian applied it at the end of a serious speech.The longer I have been teaching speeches, the more clearly I have seen, and the more vividly I have felt, the near impossibility of formulating general rules which will apply to all occasions.Because, in most cases, it depends on the topic, time, place and speaker of the speech.As Saint Paul said: "Each man must work for himself in order to save himself."

I was the guest of honor at a farewell party for a professional in New York City.A dozen or so speakers took to the stage separately to praise their departing friend and wish him success in his new endeavors.A dozen people took the stage to speak, but only one ended his speech in memorable fashion.He also ends with a quote from a short poem. Mr. Albert, vice president of IAD Motor Company in Brooklyn, once gave a speech on "loyalty and cooperation" to his company's employees.He concluded his speech with a melodious verse from Kipling's Second Jungle Canto: "This is the 'law of the jungle' - old and true as the sky; wolves who obey it shall reproduce, but wolves who break it shall die.

Clinging like vines to tree trunks, this law is everywhere - for the strength of unity is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is unity.