Driven on by the economic whip <br />hurried down from the glen <br />assuredly ignorant, unread men: <br />spirited, canny and swift. <br /> <br />Lofty lawgiving legislators wove <br />a weak and feeble web: <br />betrayed those in search of a marriage bed; <br />doomed too: body and soul. <br /> <br />Some took their chance and cast their raft upon <br />a harsh and vengeful sea: <br />adrift gave life; beauty couldn't unite thee. <br />Crude; deliberate done <br />the line goes on.<br /><br />Gillian.E. Shaw<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/time-honoured-feud-britain-1980-s/
