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C J Dennis - As Old George Said
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Said old George Jones: "All in a hundred years.
   `Tis little time enough, and well may make
This youthful country proud among its peers
   Of progress wooed and won for progress sake.
A splendid city shining by the sea
   And all that count of wealth and worth she owns
Speaks well enough for our first century,"
         Said old George Jones.


"`Tis with a country much as `tis with men:
   The fevered morn o` life goes all for gain -
For all the things gain signifies; an` then,
   We pause to con life`s lesson o`er again
And find, if be that wisdom comes with years,
   That gettin`, gainin`, holdin`, scarce atones
Nor pays for all man`s toil an` sweat and tears,"
         Said old George Jones.


"Not with the golden profit won thro` trade,
   Not with the tawdry treasure that we wrest
From this scarred earth, nor things men`s hands have made
   Comes any answer to man`s age-long quest.
Not at the gates of such material goals
   Nor pedigreed cities builded high with stones
Lies ought to serve or satisfy men`s souls,"
         Said old George Jones.


Said old George Jones, "This is an old man`s pray`r:
   That gainin` shall not ever wholly serve
This land o` mine when I drift otherwhere
   To seek what share o` peace I may deserve;
But that the treasure of the one true worth
   Shall gleam at last above my whitening bones
For wiser mortals of a wiser earth,"
         Said old George Jones.
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