{"id":446,"date":"2008-12-17T00:40:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T04:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedom24.org\/rationalpost\/?p=446"},"modified":"2009-09-25T00:51:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T04:51:12","slug":"pity-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedom24.org\/rationalpost\/pity-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"pity the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Prescient words from Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran in 1934&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i16.photobucket.com\/albums\/b17\/TaintedBalance\/Great_Depression_Soup_Line.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1117\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/freedom24.org\/rationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Great_Depression_Soup_Line-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Great_Depression_Soup_Line\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freedom24.org\/rationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Great_Depression_Soup_Line-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freedom24.org\/rationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Great_Depression_Soup_Line.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave,<br \/>\neats a bread it does not harvest,<br \/>\nand drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press.<br \/>\nPity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,<br \/>\nand that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.<br \/>\nPity the nation that despises a passion in its dream,<br \/>\nyet submits in its awakening.<!--more--><br \/>\nPity the nation that raises not its voice<br \/>\nsave when it walks in a funeral,<br \/>\nboasts not except among its ruins,<br \/>\nand will rebel not save when its neck<br \/>\nis laid between the sword and the block.<br \/>\nPity the nation whose statesman is a fox,<br \/>\nwhose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking.<br \/>\nPity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings,<br \/>\nonly to welcome another with trumpetings again.<br \/>\nPity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle.<br \/>\nPity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prescient words from Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran in 1934&#8230; Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. 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