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[aid] => mick
[title] => The land I wish to live in
[time] => 2005-01-09 06:33:14
[hometext] => With terrorism in the world, added with the natural calamities, unemployment, theft, here I dream of a land where we all should live
[bodytext] => Spreads fertility unfailing the land, where resides a band Of virtuous people with ample wealth, call that a land A land which people desire for wealth`s abundant share Yields rich increase, and where calamities are rare When burtherns press, it bears, with unfailing hand To government, due tribute is paid, that is the land It is the land, whose peaceful annals know, No famine, no plague nor ravage of the foe Free from factions and desolating civil strife and band Of lurking killers that afflicts government, is the land Chief of all lands, is where no one disturbs its peace Or even if invaders come, still yields its rich increase A nearby mountain and waters from rains, springs and thence These make it a land and with fortress sure for defense Jewels of the country are these five: Unfailing health Fertility, Happiness and Joy, protection and wealth Lands is that which yields its increase even unsought No land is that whose gifts, with toil only are bought Blest the land with all these varied gifs increase No land is that if the government is not at peace [comments] => 3 [counter] => 159 [topic] => 40 [informant] => girish [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => fantasy )
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