Grasslands are Fair
Grasslands are fair, Ploughlands are rare. Grasslands are lonely, Ploughlands are comely. Grasslands breed cattle, Ploughlands feed people. Grasslands are not wrought, Ploughlands swell with thought.
Joseph Campbell
Grasslands are fair, Ploughlands are rare. Grasslands are lonely, Ploughlands are comely. Grasslands breed cattle, Ploughlands feed people. Grasslands are not wrought, Ploughlands swell with thought.
Joseph Campbell sets two kinds of landscape side by side: open grasslands and worked ploughlands. Grasslands are called fair but also lonely, good for cattle, and “not wrought”—left as they are.
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