THE GREATEST WINNER

There once lived a good man in less recent times

Who was well endowed with dollars and dimes ;

Tho' his age was advanced and he was getting old

In his youthful and glowing heart he was all gold ;

He gave his big, sprawling house to one brother

And his many acres of lush land to the other...

They were both in dire need of property and pelf -

And he helped them without any thought of self.

But then when he was sick and needed aid

They turned their base backs on him and said -

"If you were such a fool as to give us your all,

Why do you now expect us to answer your call ?"

And then his soul spoke to him thus - "If folk now

Deride you and call you loser, you have still won -

It's not the winning in this world - but with the Lord,

You are the greatest winner in the holy eyes of God."