The Amaranth Or, religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, etc. Adorned with copper-plates from the best masters [by Walter Harte] |
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 | The Amaranth |  |
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We lose: Possessing only what we gave
But, if vain-glory prompts the tongue to boast,
In vain we strive to give, the gift is lost.
Misers have wealth, but taste it not;—and die.
There's still a rent, which wily Satan tears :
A man may mend it, at returning light,
But the Arch-Fiend un-darns the work at night.
Useless, O Miser, are thy labours found;
And all thy vintage leaks on thirsty ground .
Chimeric nonsense! Riches un-employ'd
In doing good, are riches un-enjoy'd.
The slave who sets his soul on worthless pelf,
Is a mere DIOCLESIAN to himself;
A wretched martyr in a wretched cause;
Alive, un-honour'd; dead, without applause!
A Paula's name is better known in Heav'n.
“There is that scattereth and yet encreaseth; and there is that witholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.” Prov. C. xi, V. 24.
“The riches which thou treasurest up, are lost; those which thou charitably bestowest, are truly thine.” St. August.
Paula was a Roman lady descended from the Gracchi and Scipios. Her husband was of the Julian race. After his decease, she gave most of her possessions to the poor, and retired from Rome to a solitude at Bethlehem. That incomparable virgin Eustochium was her daughter. Both their Histories are drawn at large by St. Jerom, and addressed to Euslochium. Paula has written some excellent verses on religious subjects.
She built a temple at Emmäus in honour of our Blessed Saviour. Her tomb is at Bethlehem. The inscription for her and her daughter was written by St. Jerom. Sandy's Trav. fol. 135, 139, &c.
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