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What Can All This Progress Avail
by
Ehsan Elahi Ehsan
What can all this progress avail
When life is telling the saddest tale
The theme of man is full of sorrow
And every moment it has to borrow
From the ever fleeting time
When every face is a withered leaf
When every heart is full of grief
When man is sucking the blood of man
And mourning as much as he can
Where young are old in their prime
Where songs of death are being sung
Where hopes on thorny ends are hung
Where lives are ever spent in woes
Where people walk with injured toes
Where men on hungry faces dine
Where joys are only vain delights
Where days are full of barren nights
Where every where the fixed eyes
Are fortified with heavy sighs
What can all this progress avail
When life is telling the saddest tale.
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