Mammon:
“Nerwus[1],”
“Nerwon,” the Marshall also called it
Radecki,
Bismarck, Moltke, Bisdat perished[2]
in its tracks
The
virtue of the most sublime people- that’s cash money
A
maiden will become an old widow for a coin
For
silver Judas cruelly betrayed Jesus
Brother
killed brother, son, father, the mean-spirited, the world
Money:
Plaster of gold[3]
virtue and balsam of love
Money:
That paradise, purgatory, and Hell of humanity
For
gold talent is found among fools
Money
changes clever people into beasts
And
by contrast, the most common of asses
Grew
in seconds to the wisdom of the prophets
For
money all kinds of wounds are healed
Piracies
and frauds are deemed honorable
Gold is the secret key to all
fortresses
It is the more direct hope, it is
the broad back
He who casts a penny, although
perhaps a splendid fool
Emerges a delegate of the people,
evidently wise
In a word: Heaven and earth are
purchased for a puse of gold
But Mammon: From death no one ever
got anything[4]
[1] Literally “a nervous person”
[2] Literally “rotted”
[3] Crossed out in original
[4] Literally “extracted”
Yes indeed.
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