DO THEY WINK - BY WALT MASON

MASON

Posted By: Nancee Seifert (email)
Date: 11/29/2009 at 09:36:56

Decatur County Journal
Leon, Iowa
Thursday, February 16, 1911

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The rich man gives ten million yen

To benefit his fellowmen.
And then he takes it from the bin

Where he has stored the shining tin;
He still has heaps of gaudy plunks,

And bullion lying round in chunks.
Before he shuts the cellar door

The bin is full and running o'er,
For money's pouring in so fast

The little hole he made can't last,
Yet I applauded these wealthy ducks

Who cast abroad their silver bucks.
If millionaires could only live

A thousand years they'd learn to give;
According to the wholesome plan

That's common to the working man.
I saw a man in flannel shirt

A man begrimed with grease and dirt,
Dig in his little wad of green

To help a man he'd never seen.
He gave five hones he had but ten

To help his unknown fellow men,
And he had worked day after day,

To earn the plunks he gave away.
It seems to me this working man

Looks big beside the million man.
I'll bet recording angels wink

When millionaires hand out their chink.

-- Walt Mason
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November 24, 2009
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