THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Posted by randallbutisingh on April 22, 2008
AGRICULTURE, A NOBLE PROFESSION
and the peasant the most important of all people.
Excerpts from poem, THE DESERTED VILLAGE
BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728 - 1774)
“Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride,
When once destroyed can never be supplied.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith is one of my favourite poets. In the poem
above he depicts the destruction of the peasantry when they
were evicted from the land by greedy landowners. Many were forced by to leave the land and hie to the towns where they worked long hours, for hard task masters, in an unhealthy environment for meagre wages and suffered poverty and ill health. This is what happens in any part of the world where wealth accumulates to the few who sit on it, while the majority labour for a pittance to continue to feed their greed.
Injustice, an evil can only flourish for a time. The DAY of reckoning is not far off.
— Randall Butisingh
