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Endurance

from The Enduring Land by Alan Dickson

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This is another offering from ‘The Poems of Robert Nicoll’, this time on the theme of poverty and inequality, reminding us that despite life’s hardships and the bearing of pain, the soul has the capacity to endure.

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If you have borne the bitter taunts
Which proud, poor men must bear;
If you have felt the upstart’s sneer
Your heart like iron sear;
If you have heard yourself belied,
Nor answer’d word nor blow;
You have endured as I have done –
And poverty you know!

If you have heard old mammon’s laugh,
And burns of wealth the frown;
If you have felt your very soul
Destroyed and casten down, -
And been compelled to bear it all
For sake of daily bread –
Than have you suffered what is laid
Upon the poor man’s head!

If you have seen your children starved,
And wished to bow and die –
Crushed by a load of bitterness,
Scorn, and contumely;
If misery has knaw’d your soul
Until its food grew pain –
Then you have shed the bloody tears
That cheeks of poor men stain!

There is a book, - and hypocrites
Say they believe it true, -
Which tells us men are equal all!
Do they believe and do?
No, vampire! Christ they crucify
In men of low degree;
Could souls decay – the poor man’s soul
A mortal thing would be:

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from The Enduring Land, released July 17, 2016

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Alan Dickson Glasgow, UK

Scottish singer songwriter Alan Dickson was born in Leith but now based in Glasgow. Alan writes about life in Scotland and beyond, mainly of a personal and political nature.

Descended from a Leith docker, he remarks: "as life mimics art I'm just like my grandfather, only he used a rivet gun and I use a guitar."

Among his influences are Robert Burns, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Dick Gaughan. ... more

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