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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By Carlos Wupperman

(Contemporary American poet)

Tonight the beautiful, chaste moon

From heaven’s height

Scatters over the bridal earth

Blossoms of white;

And spring’s renewed glad charms unfold

Endless delight.

Such mystic wonder the hushed world wears,

Evil has fled