A little sum laid aside for burial money--a few
clapboards
around, and shingles overhead, on
a
lot of American soil owned-- a few
dollars
to supply the year's plain clothing
and
food -- and what more? and then away; with these
as for
me these are enough.
Prudence does not overleap itself. Prudence has interminable
eyes, and rejects money,
What have you supposed Modern prudence ! .
. moneymaking:
Abandonment of such a being as you are to
the
toss and pallor of years,
To become be a doer of deceits, and underhanded
dodgings,
infinitessimals of parlors ^ . . . . a
shameless
stuffer while others starve,
Loser of all the bloom and odor of the earth,
and
of flowers, atmosphere, sea, and of the
true
taste of the women and men you pass
or
have to do with in youth or middle
age,
Receiver of the issuing sickness and revolt of the
close
of a life without elevation or
naivete,
Chatterer of the ghastly chatter of a death without
serenity
or majesty |