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

All this in a hollow shell

Whose half-submerged form

On Lake Superior tossed

‘Mid rushing hills of storm!

From the Sailors’ Catechism

Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able,

The seventh, holystone the deck and scrub the cable.

Stokers[D]

(From “The Harbor”)