Status Updates From The Xenotext: Book 1

I need to stop reading 10 books at time but I saw this on Instagram and, reader -- I'm barking.

"Every pawn toils alongside its brethren, / each legion bidden to the field at dawn / (no pardon for the idlers) – but at dusk, / even armies seek relief from their drills."
Colony Collapse Disorder, 17.

I have to read this for school and I'm already dreading it a bit bc it combines two things I've never been a fan of: poetry and science. That being said, I'm also vaguely interested as to how those two things are going to play together so we'll see how this goes.

the maiden in her dark, pale meadow