Since all the riches of all this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,
I should suspect that I worshipped the devil
If I thanked God for worldly things.
The countless gold of a merry heart,
The rubies and pearls of a loving eye,
The idle man never can bring to the mart,
Nor the cunning hoard up in his treasury.
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