Song of the Miners

Song of the Miners written by William Henry Davies

From "The Birth Of Song", 1936

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                  When starving cattle see
                      Their blades of grass
                  Locked up in ice that cuts
                      Their mouths, like glass -
What can they do but lie in heaps and die?

                  And shall our people starve,
                      Like these wild herds?
                  We, with our power to think,
                      Our gift of words -
Shall we lie down like these dumb brutes and die?

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