How pleasant it is to have money.

Come, leave your Gothic, worn-out story,

San Giorgio and the Redentore;

I from no building, gay or solemn,

Can spare the shapely Grecian column.

’Tis not, these centuries four, for nought

Our European world of thought

Hath made familiar to its home

The classic mind of Greece and Rome;

In all new work that would look forth