"Men's lacquer, show by prompt analysis

Which is the metal, which the make-believe,

So that no longer brass shall find, gold miss

"Coinage and currency? Make haste, retrieve

The precious moments, Master!" Whereunto

There snarls an "Ever laughing in thy sleeve,

"Pert Tsaddik? Youth indeed sees plain a clue

To guide man where life's wood is intricate:

How shall he fail to thrid its thickest through

"When every oak-trunk takes the eye? Elate