No spade he had; but while his active hands
Scraped a small grave among the yielding sands,
A store of gold, there hid, he found. Yes! yes!
Heaven will the just man’s pious actions bless.”
Carphyllides.
“Enjoy your goods as if your death were near;
Save them as if ’twere distant many a year.
Sparing or spending, be thy wisdom seen
In keeping ever to the golden mean.”—Lucian.
THE PARTNERSHIP.