The Small Voice

They say that money talks, ah me!

     I dare say that is true;

I’ve heard the saying all my life,

     And know it thro’ and thro’.

Now I’m not deaf in either ear,

     Can hear the slightest sound,

And I have kept year after year,

     My ear close to the ground.

I’ve even lain awake o’ nights,

     From need and not from choice,

And up to now I frankly say

     I haven’t heard its voice.

March 3, 1917