Riches

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Title:     Riches
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson [More Titles by Emerson]

Have ye seen the caterpillar
Foully warking in his nest?
'T is the poor man getting siller,
Without cleanness, without rest.

Have ye seen the butterfly
In braw claithing drest?
'T is the poor man gotten rich,
In rings and painted vest.

The poor man crawls in web of rags
And sore bested with woes.
But when he flees on riches' wings,
He laugheth at his foes.

[The end]
Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem: Riches

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