Most folks to auctions like to go; Same country home for sale you know, With all its contents, nothing reserved,
For Madam Circumstance must be served.
It may be illness, it may be debt, That prompts the owner to sell, and yet
Death is often given as reason For selling out in auction season. There’s surely a story, happy or sad, Behind all auctions that are had. Sometimes its old folks tired out, Who want to sell and gad about. It may be children, college-bred, Following where ambition led. It may be heartache, pride or strife; It all sums up to what’s called life;
To love and toil, to win or lose, To realize we can’t always choose The pathway that leads on to bliss-
Through force of chance, some come to this.
So, friends, when you to auctions go,
Remember-a story’s behind the show.
-Dr. Franklin N. Rogers
The poems by Dr. Rogers are appearing frequently in print. Here is one ‘that reveals his reasoning as did his “Pilgrim’s Philosophy.” See Bulletin of November, 1949.
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