The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest / The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; selected from twenty-five languages; covering a period of five thousand years

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Priests

(From “Songs for the New Age”)

By James Oppenheim

(See pages [45], [129], [147])

Priests are in bad odor,

And yet there shall be no lack of them.

The skies shall not lack a spokesman,

Nor the spirit of man a voice and a gesture.

Not garbed nor churched,

Yet, as of old, in loneliness and anguish,

They shall come eating and drinking among us,

With scourge, pity, and prayer.