Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG OF THE MINERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: When starving cattle see
Last Line: Shall we lie down like these dumb brutes and die?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


When starving cattle see
Their blades of grass
Locked up in ice that cuts
Their mouths, like glass —
What can they do but lie in heaps and die?

And shall our people starve,
Like these wild herds?
We, with our power to think,
Our gift of words —
Shall we lie down like these dumb brutes and die?





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