Axed Were Great Forests Of England Europe Poem by Terence George Craddock

the great forests of Old England
the great forests which covered
all of Europe had already been cut down
with saw with axe with sweat an age

of coal coal mining mighty steam was
still to come timber wood was needed
for making glass skill glass making was
exported to America the original colonies

in Europe the biodiversity of the great forests
had already been destroyed vast life destroyed
animal species not decimated but genocide destroyed

chains links in the ecosystem were not just broken
but extinction gone with habitat loss entire species
extinct extinct totally gone from previous habitat

regions
never
to be replaced

reintroduced
extinction gone
genocide destroyed