mammon-temple

Updated: July 22, 2025

Now who would believe that in the very midst of this Mammon-temple, where space is of incalculable value, a large plot of greensward should have been jealously preserved, from which spring two fine elms, that from out the heat and turmoil of the place lift up their fresh leaves to the sky bright, waving leaves, that as often as the sun kisses them, laugh out in sparkling triumph over the heated, anxious, jaded toilers and schemers below?

Various - Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 : Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852