One friendly face he found,
And said, “Pray tell me, why is wealth preferred
To wisdom?” “That’s a silly question, friend,”
Replied the other; “have you never heard,
A man may lend his store
Of gold or silver ore,
But wisdom none can borrow, none can lend?”
Sir John Bowring.
(From the Russian of Kremnitzer.)
OZYMANDIAS
I MET a traveller from an antique land,