Belled Cattle
Slaves of passion, How they prattle Of freedom - tugged Like belled cattle! Their brass jangle Is pride’s tangle - Like canaries In gilded cages. Boastful emblem Of their cruel fate, Whose true meaning They learn too late....
M. Ali Lakhani, KC, the founding editor of Sacred Web, is a lawyer and author. Raised in England, he lives in Canada, and writes on traditional metaphysics, modernity and literature.
Slaves of passion, How they prattle Of freedom - tugged Like belled cattle! Their brass jangle Is pride’s tangle - Like canaries In gilded cages. Boastful emblem Of their cruel fate, Whose true meaning They learn too late....
A cautionary note to remind us that the powers of technology will inevitably tend to corrupt and corrode the undisciplined soul, especially in an age that has pitted the ‘Spirit of the Age’ against the Spirit itself.