"I saw with open eyes/ Singing birds sweet/……" — Ralph Hodgson
"I saw with open eyes/ Singing birds sweet/ Sold in the shops/ For the people to eat,/ Sold in the shops of/ Stupidity Street.// I saw in a vision/ The worm in the wheat,/ And in the shops nothing/ For people to eat;/ Nothing for sale in/ Stupidity Street."
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Ralph Hodgson
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9 Quotes by Ralph Hodgson
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Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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