Gold and iron are good <br />To buy iron and gold; <br />All earth's fleece and food <br />For their like are sold. <br />Hinted Merlin wise, <br />Proved Napoleon great, <br />Nor kind nor coinage buys <br />Aught above its rate. <br />Fear, Craft, and Avarice <br />Cannot rear a State. <br />Out of dust to build <br />What is more than dust,-- <br />Walls Amphion piled <br />Phoebus stablish must. <br />When the Muses nine <br />When the Virtues meet, <br />Find to their design <br />An Atlantic seat, <br />By green orchard boughs <br />Fended from the heat, <br />Where the statesman ploughs <br />Furrow for the wheat,-- <br />When the Church is social worth, <br />When the state-house is the hearth, <br />Then the perfect State is come, <br />The republican at home.<br /><br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/politics-22/
