O masters, Lords and rulers in all Lands,
How will the Future reckon with this Man?
How answer his brute question in the hotur
When whirl Winds of rebellion shake the World?
How will it be with kingdoms and With kings-
with those Who shaped him to the thing he is—
When this dumb Terror shall reply to God,
After the silence of the centuries?
(……)
神明问他“谁把你造成这副样子”
他老实回答了的时候,
那班造成他这副样子的君主们应该如何处罪?引自 第一讲 现实主义的绘画:写实派
—— The Man With the Hoe
—Written after seeing Millet’s world famous painting