#folkpoetry
An Anatolian folk verse satirising Ottoman exploitation:

Ottoman, breeches loose and slack, Ottoman, saddle a wooden hack. Neither sows nor reaps the meat, But partners when it's time to eat.

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🍂✨ For #FolkyFriday, poetic magic from Christina Rossetti’s Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1872)

“Delicate and dainty thing!
For the fairies you were fashioned;
Than a flavour so impassioned
Pine and grape no richer being.”

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