The fields are bare, the harvest safe in store <br />Now is the time for man and beast to rest <br />King winter will enforce his frigid rule. <br />The fields are white, the harvest safe in store <br />In time the sun will shine and spring return <br />The earth will show renewed vitality <br />When sunshine puts an end to winters reign, <br />the frost retreats to let the spring return. <br />The farmers and the peasants know the score. <br /> The city folk are merely parasites <br />who do not know nor want to know the score. <br />They are convinced they do not need to learn. <br />Confident that gold can buy anything, <br /> this is not true. When famine strikes they’ll learn.<br /><br />ivor or ivor.e hogg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/food-for-thought-12/
