The SHIPWRECK.
But they that will be rich, fall into Temptation, and a Snare, and into many foolish and hurtful Lusts, which drown Men in Destruction and Perdition.
1 Timothy vi. 9.
That worldly Goods they may procure,
And Wealth immense obtain,
Their Breasts Men hourly will expose,
Temptations to sustain.
But Men whom Dangers thus surround,
Fortune compels to bend
Their Footsteps to those beaten Paths
Which to Destruction tend.