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

Which it were rather difficult to prove

(A thing with poetry in general hard).

Perhaps there may be something in “the grove,”

At least it rhymes to “love”; but I’m prepared

To doubt (no less than landlords of their rental)

If “courts” and “camps” be quite so sentimental.

But if Love don’t, Cash does, and Cash alone:

Cash rules the grove, and fells it too besides;

Without cash, camps were thin, and courts were none;

Without cash, Malthus tells you, “take no brides.”