Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 75
1923A man knows not, if nothing he knows,That gold oft apes begets;One man is wealthy and one is poor,Yet scorn for him none should know.Free to read · Built for close study
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A man knows not, if nothing he knows,That gold oft apes begets;One man is wealthy and one is poor,Yet scorn for him none should know.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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