THE TWO POTS.
(A Morality for Mammon.)
When Mammon in commerce has "made a big pot,"
He is free to "retire upon what he has got,"
And what need he care for the children of toil
Who have helped in their hundreds that "big pot" to boil?
Pot! Pot! Gushers talk rot;
But Demas "retires upon what he has got."
How did he get it, that pot full of gold?
That is a story that's yet to be told.
Children of Gibeon helped, 'tis well known,
At filling his pot—barely boiling their own!
Pot! Pot! How to keep hot—
That is the problem—the poor man's pot!
Poor pot-au-feu! 'Tis to keep you a-boil
Hewers and Drawers so ceaselessly toil;
But when they've filled Wealth's big pot full of gold,
What does he care if their pot becomes cold.
Pot! Pot! Let the poor go—to pot.
Mammon—"retires upon what he has got!"
Mrs. R.—She is very tender-hearted. "Of course," she says, "it's very nice of what they call 'The Forsters' parents—though why 'Forster' I don't know. But certainly, even when they're brought up as one of the family of the Forsters, yet it does make me feel very sad when I see an adapted child."
Moral and Social Queries.—When a man has lost his own character, is he justified in taking away anybody else's? At a party if somebody has taken away your hat, aren't you justified in taking somebody else's?