667-682
\nIf I had money, Simonides, as I have had in time past,
\nI could without embarrassment consort with the great.
\nBut as it is, I know a man, and he passes me by. Dumb
\nstand I, for poverty, though I know as much as the rest
\neven now. So it is. We are swept with the wind, white sails lost
\nout from the Melian Sea, on into the gloom of the night.
\nThe men are unwilling to bail any more. The sea washes over
\nthe bulwarks on either side, and barely and in distress
\nwe keep afloat. But some are at work. They have put down the noble
\nhelmsman, who know his business well, and kept a good watch.
\nAll discipline is gone, and they plunder the cargo at random,
\nnor is there any fair division made for the lot.
\nThe base hands and the porters control, the great are beneath them.
\nI am afraid. I think the sea will swallow our ship.
\nLet this be my secret cipher addressed to the nobles;
\nbut even the base man, if he is clever, can see what it means.<\/p>\n
699-718
\nFor the multitude of mankind there is only one virtue:
\nMoney. And there was no good found in anything else,
\nnot if you had the resource of Sisyphos, Aiolos’ son,
\nwho by the crafty guile in his mind came up out of Hades
\nand flattered the Queen of the Dead into letting him go,
\nPersephone, who dim’s men’s mind with the water of Lethe;
\nand to this day no other man has made such an escape,
\nonce the darkness of death has closed in a vapor about him,
\nonce he has taken his way to the shadowy place of the dead
\nand gone on through the black gates which shut the protesting
\nsouls of dead men in and will not let them go free;
\nyet Sisyphos was a hero who came back even from that place
\ninto the light of the sun through the resource in his mind;
\nnot if you could be false and make falsehood look like honesty,
\nnot if you had fair speech like Nestor the almost-divine,
\nnot if in the speed of your feet you outran the flying
\nHarpies or the North Wind’s two sons in the storm of their feet.
\nNone of these; but all men must understand when I tell them:
\nMoney, and nothing but Money, holds all the power in the world.<\/p>\n
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