How fortunate the Grave－1
All Prizes to obtain－
Successful certain, if at last,
First Suitor not in vain.
All Prizes to obtain－
Successful certain, if at last,
First Suitor not in vain.
(F.1079/J.897)
[1] Grave:: burial place of treasure.
[2] Prizes:: things seized by plunderers.
[3] Successful:: the success of the suitor.
[4] Suitor:: treasure hunter, the first one wins all. First:: The first one finds the treasure, and some foremost person who derserved to die.
[1] fortunate the Grave:: grave is the fortunate one, not human.
[2] All Prizes:: because grave obtains all prizes.
[3] Successful certain, at last:: for certain the grave will success at last.
[4] First:: chief, foremost. Suitor not in vain:: one who deserved to die.
Treasure hunting, has, in all ages, been regarded by most sensible persons as a mad and profitless pursuit, and the man who gives his time and energies to it, the world has generally, without hesitation, denominated a fool. Most people declare that there never was an individual who, being influenced by the vain hope of acquiring wealth, in the shape of hidden stores of gold, imbedded in the earth, or to be procured by digging amid ancient ruins, who has reached the expected consummation of his hopes. ─ Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany (1848)
