I, shall be held guilty, - Wherefore then, in vain, should I toil?

He shall wrong - like a vine - his sour grapes, and shall cast off - as an olive-tree - his blossom.

In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!

Then lay up, in the dust, precious ore, and, among the stones of the torrent-beds, fine gold:

Though there is, for silver, a vein, and a place for the gold they refine;

Dealing hardly with her young, as none-of hers, In vain, her labour, without dread.