Laying Up Treasure

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Title:     Laying Up Treasure
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier [More Titles by Whittier]

From the Mahabharata.

Before the Ender comes, whose charioteer
Is swift or slow Disease, lay up each year
Thy harvests of well-doing, wealth that kings
Nor thieves can take away. When all the things
Thou tallest thine, goods, pleasures, honors fall,
Thou in thy virtue shalt survive them all.

1881.

[The end]
John Greenleaf Whittier's poem: Laying Up Treasure

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