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Dives Up To Date
Dives of old was damned for heeding not
Poor Lazarus at his palace-gate who lay:
Not to be rich, but ruthless, was his blot;
How gained his ill-spent riches who shall say?
Poor Lazarus at his palace-gate who lay:
Not to be rich, but ruthless, was his blot;
How gained his ill-spent riches who shall say?
Our Dives doth his wealth from beggars wring—
The hire of dens where scarce a beast would bed—
So not himself but others likening
To Him who had not where to lay his head.
The hire of dens where scarce a beast would bed—
So not himself but others likening
To Him who had not where to lay his head.
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