The famine road

• Lazy


  Idle as trout in light colonel Jones/ these Irish
• Don't give them money


  Give them no counts at all; their bones/ need toil
• Make them build useless roads


  The relief committee deliberated "might it be safe/ Colonel, to give them roads, roads to force/ from nowhere, going nowhere of course?"
• Statistics


  One out of every ten and then/ another third of those again/ women in a case like yours
• Sick, no intention


  Sick, directionless they worked
• Woman keep busy


  But take it well woman. Grow/your garden, keep house, goody bye
• better than anticipated


  It has gone better than We expected, Lord/ Trevelyan, sedition, idleness cured/in one
• Taking food from Ireland

  we march the corn to the ships in peace
• Dead people on the streets

  This Tuesday I saw bones/out my carriage window
• The woman is useless

  Barren, never to know the load/of his child in you, what is your body/now if not a famine road