Francis William Lauderdale Adams - The Fisherman lyrics

(Mindanao, Philippines) IN the dark waveless sea, Deep blue under deep blue, The fisher drifts by on the tide In his small pole-balanced canoe. Above him the cloud-capped hills Crown the dense jungly sweeps; The cocoa-nut groves hedge round The hut where the beach-wave sleeps. Is it not better so To be as this Savage is, Than to live the Wage-slave's life Of hopeless agonies?