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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MONEY TO LOAN, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, 'money to loan' is a common sign; it
Last Line: The price, but not a rouble or yen or buck if peradventure you're out of luck.
Subject(s): Borrowers And Lenders; Money
First Line: Oh, 'money to loan' is a common sign; it
Last Line: The price, but not a rouble or yen or buck if peradventure you're out of luck.
Subject(s): Borrowers And Lenders; Money
OH, "Money to Loan" is a common sign; it everywhere greets these eyes of mine.
In twenty stairways, in this small town, the cheerful legend is hanging down.
There's money to loan to the merchant prince when bad collections have made him
wince. There's money to loan to the farmer bold, who owns wide acres of fertile
mold. There's money to loan to most any skate who has abundance of real estate,
or hogs or cattle, or bonds or stocks, to be security for the rocks. But not a
plunk, or a dollar's ghost, to lend to people who need it most! Go up those
stairs, where the "Loan" sign is, oh, busted pilgrim with pallid phiz, and ask
the gent you will find up there, to lend you a buck to relieve despair. You will
hit the walk, when he throws you down, so hard you'll rattle the drowsy town.
There's money to loan if you're cutting ice, there's money to loan if you have
the price, but not a rouble or yen or buck if peradventure you're out of luck.