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What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
Gold is a vain and foolish fancy.
[Fr., L'or est une chimere.]
Gold is a vain and foolish fancy.
[Fr., L'or est une chimere.]
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
Gold! gold! gold! gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
Gold! gold! gold! gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time
As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time
Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
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Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls to break.
[Lat., Aurum per medios ire satellites
Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius
Ictu fulmineo.]
