GIVE FOOLS THEIR GOLD, and KNAVES THEIR POWER,
LET FORTUNE'S BUBBLE RISE and FALL,
WHO SOWS a FIELD, or TRAINS a FLOWER
Or PLANTS a TREE, IS MORE THAN ALL.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–92), U.S. poet. A Song of Harvest.
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