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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Fit for the Priest’s or the Pope’s own back;

Flowers costly, waxen, gay,

And the mates from the ditch-edge, pair after pair;

Dirging band, and the Priest to pray,

And the soul of the dead one pleasuring there.

Body starved, and the mind as well.

Peace—let him rot in his costly glory,

Cheated no more with a Heaven or Hell—

Exit Salvatore.