Not to beg is billions worth
E'en from eye-like friends who give with mirth
Let World-Maker loiter and rot
If "beg and live" be human fate.
Nothing is hard like hard saying
"We end poverty by begging".
AH space is small before the great
Who beg not e'en in want acute.
Though gruel thin, nothing is sweet
Like the food earned by labour's sweat.
It may be water for the cow
Begging tongue is mean anyhow.
If beg they must I beg beggars
Not to beg from shrinking misers.
The hapless bark of beggary splits
On the rock of refusing hits.
The heart at thought of beggars melts;
It dies at repulsing insults.
The word "No" kills the beggar's life
Where can the niggard's life be safe?
DREAD OF BEGGARY
