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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Who promote the designs of oppression and treason;

Who foster sedition, and strife, and debate;

All traitors, in short, to the stage and the state;

Who surrender a fort, or in private, export

To places and harbors of hostile resort,

Clandestine consignments of cables and pitch;

In the way the Thorycion grew to be rich

From a scoundrelly dirty collector of tribute!

All such we reject and severely prohibit:

All statesmen retrenching the fees and the salaries