...their muscles as though at a slave market, and after a fourteen-hour day of brutal physical labour: Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his hoe, and gazes at the ground 5 Jake Schulz, author's father, Sergeant in the Romanian Cavalry, at age 21, in 1922....

...painter, the poet portrays the subject with heavy strokes to lay bare the effects of cruel exploitation: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted...

...probably the farmer's most arduous task, as expressed by Edwin Markham in his poem "The Man with the Hoe": Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted...

...probably the farmer's most arduous task, as expressed by Edwin Markham in his poem "The Man with the Hoe": Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted...

...seem to have been written with reference to this neglected and forlorn species of Indian humanity: "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...hoe and gazes on the ground The emptiness of ages on his face, And on his back the burden of the world." They are non-beings, exiles of civilization,...