Ye ancient bit of poetry, evidently......
http://www.marxist.com/ArtAndLiterat...sh_poets1.html
"The anonymous poem above was written in protest at the enclosure of common land in England – the process of converting the commons to private property and handing it over to a single proprietor. In two rhyming couplets, the poet managed to sum up the massive resentment felt by the commoners, resentment that has found eloquent expression over the last 500 years at the hands of writers as diverse as St Thomas More and Karl Polanyi."
http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2010/...ff-the-common/
