JAKE’S WISH
Two Hebrew gents named Mose and Jake once took a little walk
To gaze upon the scenery and have a little talk.
Both were lean and hungry, poor and shabby unto rags;
But both were full determined to climb life’s rocky crags.
They talked about their hopes, their fears and wealthy dreams,
As folks do sometimes who have known dire poverty’s extremes.
And then they fell to wishing, a foolish thing to do;
But innocent and pleasing, and it costs so little, too.
Jake wished this and Moses that; for wealth of various kinds;