Sunday, December 11, 2011

 

She Smiles for Few

George Crabbe (1754-1832), The Village 1.136-139:
Where Plenty smiles—alas! she smiles for few—
And those who taste not, yet behold her store,
Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore,
The wealth around them makes them doubly poor.



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