Two words about the world we see, <br />And nought but Mine and Thine they be. <br />Ah! might we drive them forth and wide <br />With us should rest and peace abide; <br />All free, nought owned of goods and gear, <br />By men and women though it were <br />Common to all all wheat and wine <br />Over the seas and up the Rhine. <br />No manslayer then the wide world o'er <br />When Mine and Thine are known no more. <br /> <br />Yea, God, well counselled for our health, <br />Gave all this fleeting earthly wealth <br />A common heritage to all, <br />That men might feed them therewithal, <br />And clothe their limbs and shoe their feet <br />And live a simple life and sweet. <br />But now so rageth greediness <br />That each desireth nothing less <br />Than all the world, and all his own, <br />And all for him and him alone.<br /><br />William Morris<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mine-and-thine/
