Or, should we spend some thought and care,
Our sons for uses to prepare;
What lesson do we teach them first?
The love of mammon, the accurst!
What lesson do we teach them last?
“Get gold, my son, and hold it fast;
Be grov’ling, never lift the eye
Towards orb of day or starry sky:
All learning, science, treat with scorn,
To grub and scrape you have been born;