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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE INHERITOR, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poet's Biography
First Line: I am kind-hearted, wish no creature ill
Last Line: Bland-eyed and bloody as an ogre's whelp.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Inheritance And Succession; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers
First Line: I am kind-hearted, wish no creature ill
Last Line: Bland-eyed and bloody as an ogre's whelp.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Inheritance And Succession; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers
I AM kind-hearted, wish no creature ill,
Yet take of oxen stunned by hands more strong,
And, spite my gentleness, am glad the thong
Should make my spent horse hasten up the hill.
I am fair-minded, deem the poor man still
My brother, and throw crumbs unto the throng;
A dead, self-stinting forbear laboured long
That I, from a full board, might take my fill.
Honest, my sleek well-being knows no debt.
I eat of bread begot of others' sweat
On fields made fertile by my sires' dead help.
Thus on unending massacre I browse.
Nature's elect, I forage or I drowse,
Bland-eyed and bloody as an ogre's whelp.
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