Topic: Poetry and Poets
A brief verse for World Poetry Day and, I suspect, a little known work by one of England's greatest poets, Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).
A Voice Spake Out Of The Skies
A Voice spake out of the skies
To a just man and a wise?
'The world and all within it
Will only last a minute!'
And a beggar began to cry
'Food, food or I die'!
Is it worth his while to eat,
Or mine to give him meat,
If the world and all within it
Were nothing the next minute?from Ballads And Other Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate.
London: Macmillan And Co., Limited New York: The Macmillan Company 1906
Food for thought?