And is only the way of the world!
If bankers, confusing distinctions of wealth,
Have your gold to their own pockets whirled,
And then gone to Europe for pleasure and health—
It is only the way of the world.
If preachers, forgetting the Master of old
And the banner of light He unfurled,
Elope with the fairest ewe-lambs of the fold,—
It is only the way of the world.
If merchants, unscrupulous, cheat with a will