Epode

And are they of no more avail,

Ten thousand glittering pounds a-year?

In other worlds can Mammon fail,

Omnipotent as he is here!

O, bitter mockery of the pompous bier,

While down the wretched Vital Part is driven!

The cave-lodged Beggar, with a conscience clear,

Expires in rags, unknown, and goes to Heaven.

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