Show Just Foi Folks ks By Edgar A. A G Guest ed SECOND CHOICE I think had things been otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- wise a farmer fanner Id I'd have made And could have ploughed and seeded ground in springtime springtime springtime spring spring- time unafraid I could have loved the open field and Gods God's great arch of sky And gloried in my patch of corn corn t when it was shoulder high I sometimes think thin of Plymouth Rocks or maybe Leghorns white As fowl I had been proud to own and shelter day and night And had my path been different turned I often fancy now I had been very happy owning dog and horse and cow caw They set me down to figures Inthe Inthe in inthe the days when I was small My father knew the tables I could never hever learn at allI all I tried the busin business ss office but before the year had fled The editorial fellows have a vacancy they said Too late at last my ways to change I hear a rooster crow Or look at blooming orchards orchards' as along my way I go And seeing herds of cattle and the fruits of field and vine I think Ill I'll be a farmer should the second chance be bemine be mine |