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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Then shall he answer them, saying, “Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.”

The Easter Children

(From “The Frozen Grail and other Poems”)

By Elsa Barker

(See page [315])

“Christ the Lord is risen!”

Chant the Easter children,

Their love-moulded faces

Luminous with gladness,

And their costly raiment