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 | The complete works, poetry and prose, of the Rev. Edward Young prefixed, a life of the author, by John Doran ... With eight illustrations on steel, and a portrait. In two volumes |  |
Thus far Ambition. What says Avarice?
This her chief maxim, which has long been thine:
“The wise and wealthy are the same.” I grant it.
To store up treasure with incessant toil,—
This is man's province, this his highest praise,
To this great end keen Instinct stings him on.
To guide that Instinct, Reason! is thy charge;
'Tis thine to tell us where true treasure lies:
But, Reason failing to discharge her trust,
Or to the deaf discharging it in vain,
A blunder follows; and blind Industry,
Gall'd by the spur, but stranger to the course,
(The course where stakes of more than gold are won,)
O'erloading, with the cares of distant age,
The jaded spirits of the present hour,
Provides for an eternity below.
This her chief maxim, which has long been thine:
“The wise and wealthy are the same.” I grant it.
To store up treasure with incessant toil,—
This is man's province, this his highest praise,
To this great end keen Instinct stings him on.
To guide that Instinct, Reason! is thy charge;
'Tis thine to tell us where true treasure lies:
But, Reason failing to discharge her trust,
Or to the deaf discharging it in vain,
A blunder follows; and blind Industry,
Gall'd by the spur, but stranger to the course,
(The course where stakes of more than gold are won,)
O'erloading, with the cares of distant age,
The jaded spirits of the present hour,
Provides for an eternity below.
| The complete works, poetry and prose, of the Rev. Edward Young prefixed, a life of the author, by John Doran ... With eight illustrations on steel, and a portrait. In two volumes | |