The Miser

Thou Fool, this Night thy Soul shall be required of thee: Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

Luke xii. 20.

This Night shall Death, with Iron Hand,
Thee, griping Wretch, subdue;
And in the narrow Grave entomb’d,
To-Morrow thee shall view.

Therefore, when thou, of Life depriv’d,
Shalt far from hence be gone,
What Successor shall thy vast Heaps
Of endless Riches own?