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In its train / Follow all things unholy -- love of gold -- / The phantom comes and lays upon his lids / A spell that murders sleep, and in his ear / Whispers a deathless word, and on his brain / Breathes a fierce thirst no water will allay -- / He is its slave henceforth! / N. P. WILLIS.
It is often to be found, that men of strongest and least regulated / passions, calculating, cautious, as may be the nature of their general / character, are the most easily rendered subserviant to any influence or / weakness to which they in the first instance, have capriciously chosen / to lay themselves open.