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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Of beauty and delight, of leisured hours,

Of passionate loves and high imaginings;

You are the dung that keeps the roses sweet.

I say, uproot it; plough the land; and let

A summer-fallow sweeten all the World.

Peasantry

(From “Death and the Child”)

By Stephen Crane

(American novelist and poet, 1870-1900)