Poems you ought to know . 94 HER MORAL. BY THOMAS Gold! Gold! Gold!Bright and yellow, hard and cold,Molten, graven, hammered, and rolled;Heavy to get, and light to hold;Hoarded, bartered, bought, and sold,Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled;Spurned by the young, but hugged by the oldTo the very verge of the churchyard mould;Price of many a crime untold. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Good or bad a thousandfold! How widely its agencies vary— To save—to ruin—to curse—to bless— As even its minted coins express, Now stampd with the image of Good Queen BessAnd now of a bloody

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