KURAL - Abridged.pdf - damowords
KURAL - Abridged.pdf - damowords
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104<br />
Agriculture<br />
Though easier vocations exist<br />
Everyone may farm<br />
Farmers lynch‐pin the world<br />
Supporting society’s invalids<br />
Only farmer’s truly live<br />
Everybody else sycophantic<br />
Self sufficiency never begs<br />
Nor refuses beggars<br />
Patriotic farmers stockpile supplies<br />
Supporting conquering Kings<br />
When farmers fold arms<br />
Even ascetics starve<br />
Drying by one fourth<br />
Prepares abundant fields<br />
As manure surpasses ploughing<br />
Observance outweighs weeding<br />
Compare negligent farmers’ fields<br />
With sulking women<br />
When idleness pleads poverty<br />
Mother Earth amused<br />
105<br />
Poverty<br />
Beneath every cringing poverty<br />
Lurks absolute impoverishment<br />
Present & future blisses<br />
Nemesis poverty deprives<br />
Dignified lineage & speech<br />
Craving raglife destroys<br />
Destitution induces improper speech<br />
Even noble born<br />
Miserable povertyʹs drags behind<br />
Many more miseries<br />
Words of intelligent paupers<br />
Drowned by disrespect<br />
Those absolute poverty afflicted<br />
Disowned by mothers<br />
Poorness that wounded yesterday<br />
May kill today<br />
Sleeping possible amidst flames<br />
But never poverty<br />
As raglives desperately survive<br />
Neighborhood larders drain