And when successfully amassing wealth,
Who oft-times will withdraw, as if by stealth
To render good to others unawares.
Well known to them the haunts of poverty.
Clothed are the naked, and the hungry fed,
Oft take they place beside the patient’s bed
To cheer sad hours; to soothe keen agony.
These are earth’s salt—they labor with a mind,
Distress relieving, lessening human woe;
In all their actions earnest, gentle, kind,