No man is so poor but that he is a stockholder. Yet many a man has no
real riches; his stocks draw dividends in dollars and cents only.
When it comes to buying shares
In the mines of earth,
May I join the millionaires
Who are rich in mirth.
Let me have a heavy stake
In fresh mountain air--
I will promise now to take
All that you can spare.
When you're setting up your claim
In the Mines of Glee,
Don't forget to use my name--
You can count on me.
Nothing better can be won,
Freer from alloy,
Than a bouncing claim in "Con-
Solidated Joy."
You can have your Copper Stocks
Gold and tin and coal--
What I'd have within my box
Has to do with Soul.
_John Kendrick Bangs._