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I Will Not Sail With Sheep

- W. H. Davies - (1870 to 1940)

When I was once in Baltimore
A man came up to me and cried
‘Come, I have eighteen hundred sheep,
And we sail on Tuesday’s tide.'

‘If you will sail with me, young man,
I'll pay you fifty shillings down.
These eighteen hundred sheep I take
From Baltimore to Glasgow town.’

He paid me fifty shillings down.
I sailed with eighteen hundred sheep;
We soon had cleared the harbour’s mouth,
We soon were in the salt sea deep.

The first night we were out at sea.
Those sheep were quiet in their mind.
The second night they cried with fear –
They smelt no pastures in the wind.

They sniffed, poor things, for their green fields.
They cried so loud I could not sleep:
For fifty thousand shillings down
I would not sail again with sheep.

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I Will Not Sail With Sheep"
W H Davies was born in England.. He was a hobo for several years in the US. He broke a leg hopping a train. He went back to England and began writing. His poems also reflect his love of simplicity, freedom and compassion. He writes of homeless men asleep being kicked.

Temple Grandin, designer
of less barbaric
slaughterhouses:
The chutes should be
curved. The animals
like curves. They
think they are going home.
* a slaughterhouse incident described by
Ms Grandin
..
No major fast food
chain we know of has
allowed recording of
the sounds made at the
slaughterhouses of
their suppliers

The Wall St. Journal
reported that cattle futures were down 18%
in 2 months
Merrill Lynch, Solomon
Brothers, Lehman Brothers, Paine Weber
and nearly every Wall St.
firm has promoted
livestock stock..
despite Warren Buffet's
saying that meat stocks
are going down inexorably