(Mindanao, Philippines) <br /> <br />IN the dark waveless sea, <br />Deep blue under deep blue, <br />The fisher drifts by on the tide <br />In his small pole-balanced canoe. <br />Above him the cloud-capped hills <br />Crown the dense jungly sweeps; <br />The cocoa-nut groves hedge round <br />The hut where the beach-wave sleeps. <br />Is it not better so <br />To be as this Savage is, <br />Than to live the Wage-slave's life <br />Of hopeless agonies?<br /><br />Francis William Lauderdale Adams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fisherman-10/
