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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419079" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Value of Gold</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There may be standard weight for precious metal, <br>But deeper meaning it must ever hold; <br>Thank God, there are some things no law can settle, <br>And one of these—the real worth of gold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stamp of king or crown has common power<br>To hold the traffic-value in control; <br>Our coarser senses note this worth—the lower; <br>The higher comes from senses of the soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This truth we find not in mere warehouse learning— <br>The value varies with the hands that hold; <br>The worth depends upon the mode of earning; <br>And this man's copper equals that man's gold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With empty heart, and forehead lined with scheming, <br>Men's sin and sorrow have been that man's gain; <br>But this man's heart, with rich emotions teeming, <br>Makes fine the gold for which he coins his brain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But richer still than gold from upright labor—<br>The only gold that should have standard price- <br>Is the poor earning of our humble neighbor, <br>Whose every coin is red with sacrifice. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mere store of money is not wealth, but rather <br>The proof of poverty and need of bread. <br>Like men themselves is the bright gold they gather <br>It may be living, or it may be dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It may be filled with love and life and vigor, <br>To guide the wearer, and to cheer the way; <br>It may be corpse-like in its weight and rigor, <br>Bending the bearer to his native clay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There Is no comfort but in outward showing <br>In all the servile homage paid to dross; <br>Better to heart and soul the silent knowing <br>Our little store has not been gained by loss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Boyle+O%27Reilly">John Boyle O'Reilly</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419079" data-title="The Value of Gold de John Boyle O'Reilly" data-description="There may be standard weight for precious metal, But deeper meaning it must ever hold; Thank God, there are some things no law can settle, And one of these—the real worth of gold. The stamp of king or crown has common power To hold the traf..."></div> </div> </div>
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