Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!

Gold! 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 young, but hung by old

To the verge of a church yard mold

Price of many a crime untold

Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!

Good or bad a thousand fold!

How widely it agencies vary,

To save - to ruin - to curse - to bless -

As even its minted coins express

Now stamped with the image of Queen Bess

And now of a bloody Mary

 

Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845, British humorist and poet)

Done