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XLVI. | ODE XLVI. THE POWER OF GOLD.
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The works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus and Musæus | ||
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ODE XLVI. THE POWER OF GOLD.
Love's a Pain that works our Woe;
Not to love, is painful too:
But, alas! the greatest Pain
Waits the Love that meets Disdain.
Not to love, is painful too:
But, alas! the greatest Pain
Waits the Love that meets Disdain.
What avails ingenuous Worth,
Sprightly Wit, or noble Birth?
All these Virtues useless prove;
Gold alone engages Love.
Sprightly Wit, or noble Birth?
All these Virtues useless prove;
Gold alone engages Love.
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May he be compleatly curst,
Who the sleeping Mischief first
Wak'd to Life, and, vile before,
Stamp'd with Worth the sordid Ore.
Gold creates in Brethren Strife;
Gold destroys the Parent's Life;
Gold produces civil Jars,
Murders, Massacres, and Wars:
But, the worst Effect of Gold,
Love, alas! is bought and sold.
Who the sleeping Mischief first
Wak'd to Life, and, vile before,
Stamp'd with Worth the sordid Ore.
Gold creates in Brethren Strife;
Gold destroys the Parent's Life;
Gold produces civil Jars,
Murders, Massacres, and Wars:
But, the worst Effect of Gold,
Love, alas! is bought and sold.
The works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus and Musæus | ||