Poverty
Henry David Thoreau
1817 to 1862
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A FRAGMENT
If I am poor,
It is that ______ am proud;
If God has made me naked and ______ boor,
He did not think it fit his work ______ shroud.
The poor man comes direct from heaven to earth,
As stars drop down the sky, and tropic beams;
______ rich receives in our gross air his birth,
As ______ low suns are slanted golden gleams.
Yon sun is naked, bare of satellite,
Unless our earth and moon that ______ hold;
Though his perpetual day feareth no night,
And ______ perennial summer dreads no cold.
Mankind may delve, but ______ my wealth spend;
If I no partial wealth appropriate,
______ armèd ships unto the Indies send,
None robs me ______ my Orient estate.