Act Of An Unthinker

Who threw the dead calf in the water That's how plague and sickness is bred One would have thought that the bone lazy farmer Would have buried the creature instead Of dumping him into the river To rot in the shade of the trees It's not surprising that so many people Are suffering and dying of disease? . I wonder did the thoughtless polluter Stop even one moment to think That human kind come to the river And take of these waters to drink And that rats eat the flesh of dead carcase And by rat urine jaundice is spread And humans who fall victims of jaundice Will soon be in land of the dead? . And if the calf died of brucellosis Then the farmers downland could shoulder the cross By having their cow herds infected And suffer a financial loss And the person affected by brucellosis Has my unreserved sympathy As that's a disease I would not wish Even on my worst enemy? . The man who dumped the dead calf in the river Must have an unenlightened mind Or else he must be misanthropic A hater of his fellow kind For disposal of dead creature in this way As any sane person ought know Could trigger a spate of diseases And give rise to suffering and woe.