من ديوان
The Forerunner
للشاعر
Gibran Khalil Gibran
"The plutocrat"
In my wanderings I once saw upon an island a man-headed, iron-hoofed monster who ate of
the earth and drank of
the sea incessantly. And for a long while I watched him. Then I approached him and said,
"Have you never enough;
is your hunger never satisfied and your thirst never quenched?"
And he answered saying, "Yes, I am satisfied, nay, I am weary of eating and drinking; but I am
afraid that
tomorrow there will be no more earth to eat and no more sea to drink."
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