Original Caption: Description: Event Date: Publication: Author: Owner: Source: Yet still will wealth presumtuous cry

Yet still will wealth presumtuous cry

What though the hand of death be thus outstrecthed

It will not reach the lordly and the high

But only strike the lowly and the wretched,

Tush!-- what have we to quail at? Let us fold

Our arms, and trust to luxury and gold

O thou reforming cholera! thour't sent

Not as a scourge alone, but as a teacher…

 

"The Cholera Morbus," Atlas, IV (1831-1832)

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