Quote#Money & Wealth
Look up! the proof is round you written large
Quote byAubrey Thomas de Vere · 1814–1902
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Sisters; or, Weal in Woe: An Irish Tale" in The Sisters, Inisfail, and Other Poems (1861), pp. 3-42..
English (original)
Look up! the proof is round you written large; Your Faith is in the balance wanting found; Your shipless seas confess it; bridgeless streams; Your wasted wealth of ore, and moor, and bay. Beneath the Upas shade of Faith depraved All things lie dead -- wealth, comfort, freedom, power.
— Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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