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 </div><p></p>At fifty six,<br>
What song could we sing?<br>
When wheats are so few,<br>
And bowls hardly get their dues?
<p>What song could we sing?<br>
When feet are feeble,<br>
And hands sag,<br>
While the mouths gape for a fill?</p>
<p>After five of ten and six,<br>
What song could we sing?<br>
Of a land once known as Greenland,<br>
Where birds make melodious music<br>
And the woods go down in dance,<br>
While the realms above and below<br>
Vibrate in turns with a holy hallow?</p>
<p>That hood has gone moody<br>
For the known has become the unknown.<br>
Seasons of bounty and bumper harvest,<br>
And of heavy eating and drinking,<br>
Are now tales told only in moonlight.</p>
<p>What song could we sing?<br>
Of the navigation down this fifty six?<br>
Shouldn’t it tell of gruesome sailors?<br>
And wasteful stewards?<br>
Who feed on our engine steams?<br>
And of our sowed seeds?</p>
<p>Ah!<br>
The song should be about<br>
The venomous hunger,<br>
And of anger in the land.</p>
<p>That song is of grains and greens<br>
Now going out of reach,<br>
And of milk and meat,<br>
Now exchanged for millions.</p>
<p>Talking about a song<br>
To raise folks out of the dead dungs;<br>
The notes<br>
Of the diatonic song of “Change” is a migraine,<br>
And folks are gallingly gasping for its antidotes.</p>
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