Sunday, March 1, 2015

He Didn’t Have A Pull



There was a man of goodly birth who lived a goodly life;
He reared some model children and was good unto his wife;
But he worked for meagre wages tho’ of talent he was full,
But the rascal couldn’t help it for he hadn’t any pull.

He couldn’t get in politics tho’ statesman like was he,
A servant for his Uncle Sam he never quite could be.
The railroads had no use for him, the banks were always full,
And so he drudged his whole life-long because he had no pull.

He turned his gifts to this and that and tried his best to rise,
But in the “ring” there was no room for mortals of his size;
And so he died an unknown man, of which the world is full,
But he went straight into heaven and he went without a pull.



March 1, 1893

Pub. in Boston Courier

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