We toil and toil tilling With our sweat ******* the soil Yet merrily singing our song From the ****’ s crow till the sun goes home.
The harvest is non- the - less Still in music and songs Trekking like to the end- of - the - world Load - laden till our necks go sore.
With stock in ban to feed the whole clan By moonlight we woo to win more hands Till mandiang comes back a - round Bringing us to the start of the round
This note may help , if you may want a deeper understanding of this poem. I hail from a minority tribe (Berom) in Nigeria . the major economic activity of my people use to be subsistence agriculture. the Berom people have a festival called MANDIANG. Mandiang is held or observed in April to mark or usher in a new planting season . it was believed that on this day the ancestors or gods are lured to pour down rain , to ensure a green farming season and a good yield after all.