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Signification . . One who increases. 
Emblem King Cup. 
Sentiment .... I wish I was rich. 
Waste treasure like water, ye noble and great ! 
Spend the wealth of the world, to increase your estate ; 
Pile up your temples of marble, and raise 
Columns and domes, that the people may gaze 
And wonder at beauty so gorgeously shown, 
By subjects more rich than the king on his throne ; 
Lavish and squander, for why should ye save 
“ The sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave ” ? 
Gold ! gold ! in all ages the curse of mankind, 
Thy fetters are forged for the soul and the mind : 
The limbs may be free as the wings of a bird. 
And the mind be the slave of a look and a word. 
To gain thee men barter eternity’s crown, 
Yield honor, affection, and lasting renown, 
And mingle, like foam, with life’s swift-rushing wave 
“ The sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.” 
Park Benjamin. 
