There was still gold and silver in the mountains,
And hunger was a more immediate sorrow


Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944 (ed. London, Faber, 1950)

W. H. Auden Quotes

There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow

There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow

There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow

There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow