• Seagoon_OP
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      5 months ago

      The law locks up the man or woman

      Who steals the goose from off the common

      But leaves the greater villain loose

      Who steals the common from off the goose.

      The law demands that we atone

      When we take things we do not own

      But leaves the lords and ladies fine

      Who take things that are yours and mine.

      The poor and wretched don’t escape

      If they conspire the law to break;

      This must be so but they endure

      Those who conspire to make the law.

      The law locks up the man or woman

      Who steals the goose from off the common

      And geese will still a common lack

      Till they go and steal it back

      ~Late 1700s