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Not All Knowledge Is Power

Is't sweeter to find an expected dagger Than an unexpected daffodil? To be right and find your apple pie stolen Than find one left for you upon the sill? If knowledge grants a sovereign power Its symbol must be yin and yang For on a peg of hopeless hopes Is not where our happiness should hang The farmer who plants a rotten seed Must reap a venom crop Some men who live on lesser grains and envy greens Can find it difficult to stop Is one's one-day rest too restive Or one's six-day sweat too sweat That a surprise sun-kissed baptismal rain Should not inspire a gladder beat? Look to the inkdrop atomic ant No insurance against acts of man But he lives, loves, and toils in every step Do you not think we can?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2008




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