<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392158" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Truth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">COME then, let us at least know what's the truth.<br>Let us not blink our eyes and say<br>We did not understand; old age or youth<br>Benumbed our sense or stole our sight away.<br>It is a lie — just that, a lie — to declare<br>That Wages are the worth of Work.<br>No; they are what the Employer wills to spare<br>To let the Employee sheer starvation shirk.<br>They're the life-pittance Competition leaves,<br>The least for which brother'll slay brother.<br>He who the fruits of this hell-strife receives,<br>He is a thief, an assassin, and none other.<br>It is a lie — just that, a lie — to declare<br>That Rent's the interest on just gains.<br>Rent's the thumb-screw that makes the worker share<br>With him who worked not the produce of his pains.<br>Rent's the wise tax the human tape-worm knows.<br>The fat he takes; the life-lean leaves.<br>The holy Landlord is, as we suppose,<br>Just this — the model of assassin-thieves!<br>What is the trick the Rich-man, then, contrives?<br>How play my lords their brilliant rôles? —<br>They live on the plunder of our toiling lives,<br>The degradation of our bodies and souls!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+William+Lauderdale+Adams">Francis William Lauderdale Adams</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392158" data-title="The Truth de Francis William Lauderdale Adams" data-description="COME then, let us at least know what's the truth. Let us not blink our eyes and say We did not understand; old age or youth Benumbed our sense or stole our sight away. It is a lie — just that, a lie — to declare That Wages are the worth of Wor..."></div> </div> </div>

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