Jr. Horatio Alger

“ Who lives in the kitchen, cooks, washes, and starches,
[35] While Eve in the parlor plays waltzes and marches;
And that those who perforce bear the burdens of life
Date their origin back to this man and his wife,
While from Adam the first are descended the few
Who are blest with long purses and nothing to do. ”

“ There's Sir Arthur Fitz-Herbert, an old English knight,
Who won his gold spurs in a hardly-fought field,
Where he rescued the life of the gallant Black Prince
By receiving a blow meant for him—on his shield;
[16] Of which glorious action, so well worth attention,
Not a single historian makes any mention ”

“ Should he strive to break up the clandestine alliance?
For, though men have made money, and will do again,
There was never a case known where money made men;
And if Jones be a man in what constitutes manhood,
He's a far better match than young Frederic Stanwood,
[11] Though the one be a clerk, and the other the heir
Of the house next M'Flimsey's, on Madison-square.
If the one is deficient in wealth, we may find
The other quite bankrupt in morals and mind. ”