With hope to gain Ten Thousand Pound
How many post to ruin,
And for an empty, airy sound
Contrive their own undoing!
Those on whom wealth her stores had shed,
May firmly bear their crosses;
But they who earn their daily bread,
Oft sink beneath their losses.
’Tis strange, so many fools we find,
By tickets thus deluded,
And, by a trifling turn of mind,
From life’s blest bliss excluded.
For life’s best blessing, calm content,
Attends no more his slumbers,
Who dreams of profit, cent. per cent.
And sets his heart on numbers.
Thro’ all life’s various stages, care
Our peace will oft disquiet;
Like a free-gift it comes, we ne’er
Need be in haste to buy it.
He who, intent on shadowy schemes,
By them is deeply bubbled,
Deserves to wake from golden dreams,
With disappointment doubled.
Unmoved by Fortune’s fickle wheel,
The wise man chance despises;
And Prudence courts with fervent zeal—
She gives the highest prizes.
Large Division of Tickets.
In some of the old lotteries tickets were divided into a much greater number of shares than of late years. There is an example of this in the following