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

by Unknown

Of their Easter music

I can hear the murmur,

“Suffer all the children.”

Nay, the world is dreaming!

And my seeing spirit

Trembles for its waking,

When their Saviour rises

To restore the lilies

To the outcast children.

The Quest