never had felt a “call,”
And she constantly prodded Elias with,
“’Tain’t prayer that counts, it’s sprawl.”
There are some who are born for the pats of
Life and some for the cuffs and whacks,
Elias fought the wolf of want as best he might
with his axe;
He even aided with scanty store some desolate
Tom or Jim,
But at last when his poor old arms gave out no