Sonnet+146

146 === || || dearth - a scarcity or lack of something dross - something that is worthless
 * # Poor soul the centre of my sinful earth,
 * 1) My sinful earth these rebel powers array,
 * 2) Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth
 * 3) Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
 * 4) Why so large cost having so short a lease,
 * 5) Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?
 * 6) Shall worms inheritors of this excess
 * 7) Eat up thy charge? is this thy body's end?
 * 8) Then soul live thou upon thy servant's loss,
 * 9) And let that pine to aggravate thy store;
 * 10) Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
 * 11) Within be fed, without be rich no more,
 * 12) So shall thou feed on death, that feeds on men,
 * 13) And death once dead, there's no more dying then. ||