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Social Issues At Work

We live in a society of great prosperity,
  and yet so many are still so poor.     
  Roughly, one quarter of all our children
    are defined as being very poor.

Many other problems linger. 
  Sociologists around the world are working
    on solutions, but the results thus far
        -are meager-
It will take a great number of dedicated 
  people to effect change.


Byron-
And wilt thou weep when I am low?
    Sweet lady! speak those words again:
Yet if they grieve thee, say not so---
    I would not give that bosom pain.

My heart is sad, my hopes are gone,
    My blood runs coldly through my breast;
And when I perish, the weeping lawn
    Wilt sigh above my place of rest.

And yet, methinks, a gleam of peace
    Doth through my cloud of anguish shine:
And for a while my sorrows cease,
    To know thy heart hath felt for mine.

Oh lady! blessd be that tear---
    It falls for one who cannot weep;
Such precious drops are doubly dear
    To those whose eyes no tear may steep.

Sweet lady! once my heart was warm
    With every feeling soft as thine;
But Beauty's self hath ceased to charm
    A wretch created to repine.

Yet wilt thou weep when I am low ?
    Sweet lady! speak those words again:
Yet if they grieve thee, say not so---
    I would not give that bosom pain.