M=But A Penny

A humble home beside a row of splendour

Parades its builders fare

Each brick each trowel of mortar

Beset, with shrewd and tender care

A legend in his life-time

But A Penny, he did save

Each bead of sweat from brow that fell

Supplies and tools they gave

Every hour of daylight

He laboured to belief

The dawn a bountiful employer

Each night crept, retributions thief

Threadbare was his clothing

His boots to large or small

But A Penny, strived a frugal life

His dream to build a home

His only call

For years, they mocked his labours

No roof nor glass nor floor

Just a solitary penny

Strung above the door

Thirty years of sweat and toil

His pride and home secured

Shines a momument

To one man's passion

And the dream that he ensured

They say that in the shadows

You can hear him whispering reply

To those that mocked his expectations

As they genially went by

You can'a build on but a penny

To the workhouse you should go

"But A Penny is a mighty seed

When you have time and faith

To watch it grow"

lex ?03