"Where Plenty smiles - alas! she smiles for few, And those who taste not, yet behold her store, Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore, The wealth around them makes them doubly poor."
George Crabbe

January 1, 1970

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The Village, Book 1, line 136 (1783).

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