From the Wall Street Journal: "Colombia’s discovery of the 300-year-old, shipwrecked galleon San Jose, thought to be loaded with some $10 billion in gold and precious stones, could shed light on an important period in Spanish colonial history but also spawn legal battles over the valuable cargo."
To go a-roving on the sea in search of sunken treasure
is the goal of dreamers that is very hard to measure.
Seeking in the briny deeps for bars of bullion gold,
fighting gem-encrusted crabs like Argonauts of old!
Such adventure only comes to bold and gallant souls
who never can be sated by life's humdrum Tootsie Rolls.
But finding treasure's only half the battle, don't you see --
it can be appropriated, and quite lawfully.
If I were seeking gold doubloons beneath the Spanish Main
I'd gather all the bureaucrats and quickly have them slain.
Then find a presidente I could lavish with a bribe
to give him ease and comfort for himself and all his tribe.
And then, and only then, would I dredge up my soggy hoard,
and find myself a tax haven in some Bahama fjord.
That is how Dame Fortune by the eyebrows you must seize
if you want to win the fight 'gainst all that greedy sleaze.
But I will never go a-rovin' over treasure seas;
I can't even locate where I've put my own car keys!
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