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Of God and gold

Rio de Janeiro , 1962

As gold breeds misery 
Misery breeds light 
That makes the stones glare 
For the pauper's delight. 

Light is but the pauper's gold 
Stones are but rocks 
That pave the way where run 
God's miserable flocks. 

The world has many rocks 
God has many flocks 
God's a shepherd, I was told 
God is made of gold.