The Dead Half [poem by William Blocksidge (William Baylebridge)]

[Editor: This poem by William Blocksidge (also known as William Baylebridge) was published in Songs o’ the South (1908).]

The Dead Half

More than half the world is dead —
In its business burièd:
Wholly wed to hunting bread,
More than half the world is dead.

Source:
William Blocksidge, Songs o’ the South, London: Watts, 1908, p. 81