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 - Unknown

With those who shaped him to the thing he is—

When this dumb Terror shall reply to God,

After the silence of the centuries?

(From “The Village”)

By George Crabbe

(One of the earliest of English realistic poets, 1754-1832; called “The Poet of the Poor”)

Or will you deem them amply paid in health,

Labor’s fair child, that languishes with wealth?