Enclosure

Thus came enclosure—ruin was its guide
But freedoms clapping hands enjoyed the sight
Though comforts cottage soon was thrust aside
& workhouse prisons raised upon the site
E'en natures dwellings far away from men—
The common heath—became the spoilers prey
. . .
No matter—wrong was right & right was wrong
& freedoms bawl was sanction to the song
. . .
As thou wert served so would they overwhelm
In freedoms name the little that is mine
& there are knaves that brawl for better laws
& cant of tyranny in stronger powers
Who glut their vile unsatiated maws
& freedoms birthright from the weak devours

poetry #environment 

#honesty

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