Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHO IS FREE?, by PHILEMON


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WHO IS FREE?, by                    
First Line: I serve my master: you and countless others
Last Line: By nature's law made subject to the greater.
Alternate Author Name(s): Philemon (athenian Comic Poet B.c. 330
Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty


I SERVE my master: you, and countless others,
Are governed by convention. Some, again,
Obey a tyrant, ruled himself by fear.
Kings have their servants, but submit to gods:
God, to Necessity. Considered well,
All things in their degree give place, the small
By nature's law made subject to the greater.





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