{"id":1841,"date":"2015-06-07T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2016-02-21T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T12:00:12","slug":"for-the-corncrakes-and-mankinds-sakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/for-the-corncrakes-and-mankinds-sakes\/","title":{"rendered":"For The Corncrakes and Mankinds Sakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;For The Corncrakes Sake and Mankinds&quot; Save nature or humanity? Philosophical query...\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lETjQBK2cwQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we put the same resources to saving the hungry and the homeless as we do into one little bird, this would be a way better country and world&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its song is not of an angels chorus<br \/>\nNor its feathers for placing on a hat<br \/>\nNor its flesh fit to be on a plate<br \/>\nAnd yet, for all that<br \/>\nThe corncrakes call and its demise<br \/>\nHas reached into our heart<br \/>\nFor maybe our loss of oneness with nature<br \/>\nIt has made us aware, or made a good start.<\/p>\n<p>And so today in open field<br \/>\nWhere they cut from the edge before<br \/>\nThey now cut from the centre out<br \/>\nSo the corncrake can once more<br \/>\nBe heard, above the sounds of evening<br \/>\nBy all, for the coming years<br \/>\nFor it is through carelessness of man<br \/>\nThat nature disappears.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine: if we done for fellow man<br \/>\nWho little for we might care<br \/>\nAnd adapted the way we live our lives<br \/>\nTo give him a chance where<br \/>\nHe might prosper, yet we don&#8217;t lose<br \/>\nIt would be a wondrous thing<br \/>\nA lot less trouble would be in the world<br \/>\nThat would be a song to sing!<\/p>\n<p>Alas the humble cry of the corncrake<br \/>\nWas not saved out of love:<br \/>\nIt took grants of free money<br \/>\nTo make man rise above<br \/>\nHis lust for gain: and so with man<br \/>\nUnless God gives a financial grant<br \/>\nTo man to take care of his fellow man and adapt<br \/>\nProspects for peace are scant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we put the same resources to saving the hungry and the homeless as we do into one little bird, this would be a way better country and world&#8230; Its song is not of an angels chorus Nor its feathers for placing on a hat Nor its flesh fit to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,439,109,232],"tags":[2360,1997,1995,2000,586,1996,1998,12,918,2001,1999],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-banagher","category-environment","category-nature-2","tag-banagher","tag-callows","tag-corncrake","tag-crank-house","tag-eu","tag-grants","tag-irish-callows","tag-nature","tag-offaly","tag-offaly-west","tag-save-the-corncrake","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-tH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4053,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/2013-readings-at-the-pallet-in-banagher\/","url_meta":{"origin":1841,"position":0},"title":"2013 Readings at the Pallet In Banagher","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"9th September 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UH-NzQux4LM Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh reading the The Pallet readings in his native Banagher in Co. 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