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THE TRUST AND THE TRUSTEE (A SONG FOR THE TIME) by ANONYMOUS

First Line: IF A TRUSTEE IN TRUSTING DOTH TRUST HIM A TRUST
Last Line: "AND THE TRUST THAT HE TRUSTED, AND THE TRUSTEE -- THEY BUST"
Subject(s): TRUST;

IF a trustee in trusting doth trust him a trust,
In trusting the trust thus three things he intrusts:
The truster, thing trusted, and cestui que trust —
Two trusts, too, he's trusting in trusting this trust —
With those three things intrusted in trust to the trust,
The trust in him trusted and the trust he intrusts.

Now those three things he's trusted and these two things in trust
By the trustee intrusted through trust in the trusts
That most trusters in trusting trust their trustees to trust,
Are in trust because trusty, trustworthy this trust —
Or through other trusts trusted by trustees in trust
And trustworthily treated by the trusts that they trust.

But if trustless, untrusty, trustworthless this trust
That the trustee trusts trusts to through too trusting a trust
In the trusts he's intrusted to trust with a trust,
Then the truster, things trusted, and the cestui que trust,
And the trust in trusts trusted, and the too trusting trust,
And the trust that he trusted, and the trustee — they bust.



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