Pansies (Lawrence)/All that we have is Life—

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ALL THAT WE HAVE IS LIFE———
All that we have, while we live, is life;
and if you don't live during your life, you are a piece of dung.

And work is life, and life is lived in work
unless you're a wage-slave.
While a wage-slave works, he leaves life aside
and stands there a piece of dung.

Men should refuse to be lifelessly at work.
Men should refuse to be heaps of wage-earning dung.
Men should refuse to work at all, as wage-slaves.
Men should demand to work for themselves, of themselves, and put their life in it.
For if a man has no life in his work, he is mostly a heap of dung.

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