A jeremaiad, which came to me as I was waking

[pecunium]

Woe betide them who help not those in need
Who leave the helpless to be harried by wolves
and plucked at by ravens

For I have seen their inequities
and measured their ingratitude

Their perfidy shall be seen by the nations
and their cowardice is known


I've not the sustained anger of Jeremiah, and this moved me too much to lose in my reverie, so I rose to write it, before it was lost.