Name/Title
Poem, 1936Entry/Object ID
2020.5.66Tags
1930sScope and Content
Poem(?) or writing sample "The Dollar & The Cent." Envelope is marked "To Flora" and is dated August 6, 1936.
It is assumed that it as meant for Flora Trask, although the writer is unknown.
"The Dollar & the Cent
A Big silver dollar and a little brown cent, rolling
along together went; rolling along the smooth sidewalk,
when the dollar remarked, for dollars do talk:
You poor little cent, you cheap little mite, I am
bigger and twice as bright. I'm worth more than
you a hundred fold, and written on me in letters
bold, is the motto drawn from a pious creed: "In
God we trust" which all may read."
"yes, I know," said the cent; I'm a cheap little
mite, and I know I'm not big, nor good, nor
bright, And yet," said the cent, with a meek
little sigh, "you don't go to church as often as I."
Some one has ... said: "If you have faith
enough in any one idea to pray to it and work
at it, you will either land in jail, in the head lane,
in public office; or in the biggest house on
the block." Everyone shapes his own career:
He either drifts with the tide or steers straight
for a predetermined landing place on the farther
shore. The world stands aside for the one
who knows where is going, but it crowds
the idle dreamers and careless drifter to
the sidelines
'the optimist'"Location
Location
Container
Trask Family Collection Box 1Room
ArchivesBuilding
Morgan History CenterNotes
Folder 12Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Trask, Flora