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

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

(See pages [200], [209])

Preach about yesterday, Preacher!

The time so far away:

When the hand of Deity smote and slew,

And the heathen plagued the stiff-necked Jew;

Or when the Man of Sorrow came,

And blessed the people who cursed his name—

Preach about yesterday, Preacher,

Not about today!