Eugene Field: The Advertiser

The Advertiser

I am an advertiser great!

In letters bold
The praises of my wares I sound,
Prosperity is my estate;
The people come,
The people goIn one continuous,
Surging flow.
They buy my goods and come again
And I’m the happiest of men;
And this the reason I relate,
I’m an advertiser great!

There is a shop across the way
Where ne’er is heard a human tread,
Where trade is paralyzed and dead,
With ne’er a customer a day.
The people come,
The people go,
But never there.
They do not know
There’s such a shop beneath the skies,
Because he does not advertise!
While I with pleasure contemplate
That I’m an advertiser great.

The secret of my fortune lies
In one small fact, which I may state,
Too many tradesmen learn too late,
If I have goods,
I advertise.Then people come
And people go
In constant streams,
For people know
That he who has good wares to sell
Will surely advertise them well;
And proudly I reiterate,
I am an advertiser great!

Eugene Field
(1850 – 1895)
The Advertiser

• fleursdumal.nl magazine

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