Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood."

—Stanzas from Gray's "Elegy in a Country Church-yard."—Translator.

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"Cursed be the gold that gilds the straighten'd forehead of the fool!"

—Tennyson, in "Locksley Hall."

"Gold, yellow, glittering, precious gold!

Thus, much of this will make black, white; foul, fair;

Wrong, right; base, noble; old, young; coward, valiant."

—Shakespeare, in "Timon of Athens."—Translator.