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AD C. SALLUSTIUM CRISPUM / Horace: Book II, Ode 2 / _"Nellus argento color est avaris. "_
Sallust, I know you of old, / How you hate the sight of gold -- / "Idle ingots that encumber / Mother Earth" -- I've got your number.
Why is Proculeius known / From Elmira to Malone? / For his money? Don't upset me! / For his love of folks -- you get me?
Choke the Rockefeller yen / For the clink of iron men! / Happiness it will not mint us, / Take it from your Uncle Quintus.
Fancy food and wealthy drink / Raise Gehenna with a gink; / Pastry, terrapin, and cheeses / Bring on gout and swell diseases.
Phraates upon the throne / Old King Cyrus used to own / Fails to hoodwink or deceive me, / Cyrus was some king, believe me!
Get me right: a man's-size prince / Knows that money is a quince. / When they see the Yellow Taffy, / Reg'lar Princes don't go daffy.