Denotes an empty purse.
“I know you well from stem to stern,
From centrepiece to rim;
For many, many years ago
You cost a modest ‘jim’—
Those years, those sun-tipped years! that now
Live with the seraphim.
[62]
]“Since then I’ve marched the dusty way
That better feet have trod,
But always found, my bride! in you,