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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay:
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed can never be supplied. (Lines 51-56)

The greed that destroys the peasantry eventually drives Poetry herself to leave England.








What does the above quote from The Deserted Village, lines 51-56, mean?