Ralph Waldo Emerson — Riches

Have ye seen the caterpillar         Foully warking in his nest? 'T is the poor man getting siller,         Without cleanness, without rest. Have ye seen the butterfly         In braw claithing drest? 'T is the poor man gotten rich,         In rings and painted vest. The poor man crawls in web of rags         And sore bested with woes. But when he flees on riches' wings,         He laugheth at his foes.