“Hast trusted in a friend, and seen
No friend was he in need?
A common error—men still lean
Upon as frail a reed.
“Hast thou, in seeking wealth or fame,
A crown of brambles won?
O’er all the earth ’tis just the same
With every mother’s son!
“Hast found the world a Babel wide,
Where man to mammon stoops?