I paid a dime for a package of seeds
And the clerk tossed them out with a flip.
“We’ve got ‘em assorted for every man’s
needs,”
He said with a smile on his lip.
“Pansies and poppies and asters and peas!
Ten cents a package and pick as you please!”
Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the
store
And dimes are the things he needs;
And I’ve been to buy them in seasons before,
But have thought of them merely as seeds.
But it flashed through my mind as I took them
this time
"You have purchased a miracle here for a
dime!"
"You've a dime's worth of power no man can
create,
You've a dime's worth of life in your hand!
You've a dime's worth of mystery, destiny,
fate,
Which the wisest cannot understand.
In this bright little package, now isn't it
odd?
You've a dime's worth of something known only
to God.
-Edgar A. Guest
