Servant Leadership as Creative Response

My friend Frazer Crocker sent the following R. S. Thomas translation of an anonymous Welsh folk stanza this morning. It reminds me how resilient people can be. The sentence following the stanza is Frazer's, too.

Let the stranger, if he will,
Have his way with the glen;
But give us to live
At the bright hem of God
In the heather, in the heather

The lines come from the time when the English bought up the best lowland farms, forcing the native Welsh farmers up into the hills to eke out a living.