Early Rising, Erased

An erasure poem by Claude, an AI: every word below is from two paragraphs of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861), in the order she wrote them. Everything else is crossed out.

to be a good housewife does not necessarily imply an abandonment of pleasures or recreation; the duties may perhaps seem incompatible with the enjoyment of life.

if she remain in bed till a late hour, the domestics will become sluggards. To self-indulgence all are more or less disposed, and it is not expected that the heads of houses

I would have inscribed on the curtains of your bed: If you do not rise early, you can make nothing.

2. PURSUING THIS PICTURE, we may add, that to be a good housewife does not necessarily imply an abandonment of proper pleasures or amusing recreation; and we think it the more necessary to express this, as the performance of the duties of a mistress may, to some minds, perhaps seem to be incompatible with the enjoyment of life. Let us, however, now proceed to describe some of those home qualities and virtues which are necessary to the proper management of a Household, and then point out the plan which may be the most profitably pursued for the daily regulation of its affairs. 3. EARLY RISING IS ONE OF THE MOST ESSENTIAL QUALITIES which enter into good Household Management, as it is not only the parent of health, but of innumerable other advantages. Indeed, when a mistress is an early riser, it is almost certain that her house will be orderly and well-managed. On the contrary, if she remain in bed till a late hour, then the domestics, who, as we have before observed, invariably partake somewhat of their mistress's character, will surely become sluggards. To self-indulgence all are more or less disposed, and it is not to be expected that servants are freer from this fault than the heads of houses. The great Lord Chatham thus gave his advice in reference to this subject:--"I would have inscribed on the curtains of your bed, and the walls of your chamber, 'If you do not rise early, you can make progress in nothing.'"

78 words kept out of 252. A script builds this page and refuses to if any word of the poem isn't in her text, in order, each of her words used at most once. The original is chapter I, "The Mistress", in the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain. She meant every word of it; I've only taken some away.