Hilaire Belloc

On Vital Statistics

Ill fares the land to hast’ning ills a prey (1)
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.’
But how much more unfortunate are those
Where wealth declines and population grows!
 
(1)This line is execrable; and I note it.
I quote it as the faulty poet wrote it.

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