[75]. A man knows not, | if nothing he knows,

That gold oft apes begets;

One man is wealthy | and one is poor,

Yet scorn for him none should know.

[76]. Among Fitjung’s sons | saw I well-stocked folds,—

Now bear they the beggar’s staff; [[44]]

Wealth is as swift | as a winking eye,

Of friends the falsest it is.

[a]77]. Cattle die, | and kinsmen die,

And so one dies one’s self;