A tear one moment dimmed his eye,
But still he answered, with a sigh—
Divitior!
“Beware th’ alluring path of greed,
There’s danger in thy headlong speed;”
This was a brother’s parting word—
He cried, the warning scarcely heard—
Divitior!
One morning, as the gossips tell,
While neighbours, woke by matin bell,