And after death are flung to hell-fire’s vengeful hearth.
If thou repose thy trust in God’s almighty pow’r,
Sow first thy seed; and then, await the harvest hour.”
The beasts a clamour raised; they would not be repressed:
“They who on means depend, are urged by greed confessed.50
The millions upon millions, man and womankind,
Are pinched by want; they suffer need; they food scarce find.
By millions and by millions, since creation’s day,—
Insatiate dragons,—they their gaping jaws display.
A crowd of would-be wise men stratagems invent,