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DMIRE, with me, the action of this farmer Whose heart could not be tenderer or warmer, No deed could be less selfishly dictated, Nor by humaner feelings motivated; Ah, how that sympathetic heart would bleed To see a sheep endeavouring to feed, Poor over-worked and under-nourished creature, With no guide but her appetite and nature; She seeks the fattening grass, her efforts squandering In wanton straying and uneasy wandering. Problem: how ease, by kindness, or by. guile, The load of such uneconomic toil? He has it! Seize the errant ewe and hold her, Deny the tale unaided nature told her, Let clever humankind step in and pit Science against untutored natural wit, Select the proper mutton-making grasses, Reject the stuff beloved of cows and ' asses, And, heedless of her loud protesting note, Cram the correct material down her
throat,
Arnold
Wall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 409, 24 April 1947, Page 13
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