Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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WEALTH'S NOTHINGNESS. |
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WEALTH'S NOTHINGNESS.
What tho' ye loll in gilded Halls! e'en theseShall to your sated Eyes seem dull and bare
And cheerless as the cobweb'd Walls which are
The Prisoner's Limits: Pleasure cannot please
Who surfeits on it, in the Lap of Ease
Unrest shall pillow ye, and wrinkled Care
Sit by ye at the sumptuous Banquet, share
Your costly Viands, and that worst disease,
Selfweariness, into your Vitals eat!
With unbought Pleasures this wide World doth teem
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Of simple Feelings, but in vain ye deem
Nature's wise Laws like Man's to bribe and cheat:
Her Joys are unbought Boons, and, as is meet,
Worth but what they stand for in our Esteem!
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