The emigrant leaves his own country
for various personal and private reasons.
He is a gambler in the lottery of the future.
He surely hopes for a better job at higher pay
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(2) Last two lines say it all: He is a gambler in the lottery of the future. ....God said: 'Do not ill-treat a stranger; you know how it feels to be rejected, because you were strangers in Egypt'.
I wonder how many will people have similar thoughts with regard to accepting migrants (within a country or at inter-continental level) . I fully agree that such migrants have contributed towards the all-round growth of their places of migration while putting in their best efforts for ensuring a better deal for themselves and their families and also for their coming generations. Thanks for taking up the subject and explaing the same with nice examples.
Not everyone gives immigrants a fair go, unfortunately. I think it is logical to make immigrants feel at home and 'one of us'.
It's a coincidence that two minutes prior to reading this poem, I was reading (and listening to a musical presentation of) a folk song written by a people's poet nearly two hundred years ago and roughly on the same subject but with a philosophical message.
Yes, a folk song can be just as forceful as a poem. Thanks for your observation.