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Ah, Love, the earth is woe’s
And sadly helpers needs:
And, till its burden goes,
Our work is—where it bleeds.

— Bernard O'Dowd

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This is a rune I ravelled in the still,
Arrogant stare of an Australian cow.

‘Be true, be brave, be merciful, be free!’

And our reward? In this wan land,
In clientage of Greed,
Despised, polluted, maimed and banned,
To wander and—to breed.

A new demesne for Mammon to infest?

Are you for Light, and trimmed, with oil in place,
Or but a Will o’ Wisp on marshy quest?
A new demesne for Mammon to infest?
Or lurks millennial Eden ’neath your face?

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