(Which will come over things), beats Love or liquor,

The gamester's counter, or the statesman's dross.

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper,

Which makes bank credit like a bank of vapour.

V.

Who hold the balance of the World? Who reign

O'er congress, whether royalist or liberal?

Who rouse the shirtless patriots of Spain?[615]

(That make old Europe's journals "squeak and gibber"[616] all)

Who keep the World, both old and new, in pain