Sol 5.6

  1. O you ravenous for white silver and yellow gold—can

    taking by fistfuls or fingertips turn death aside?

  2. In one person lies sufficiency, if desire is defied;

    yet one person does not content you.

  3. Had you not learned before this that

    greed has bowed the necks of humankind?

  4. Upon attaining wealth, fear falling into need—

    how many a man in full estate has been overtaken by want.

  5. Did they please you? No—they wore you gaunt in pursuit of what

    brought you no gain: the swift camel-trot and headlong drive.

  6. Ah, how fine your searching would be, if it were for

    your own right guidance—that searching and scrutiny!

Sol 5.6