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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And give them title, knee and approbation

With senators on the bench.

The Cave of Mammon

(From “The Faerie Queene”)

By Edmund Spenser

(Old English poet, 1552-1599)

At last he came unto a gloomy glade

Cover’d with boughs and shrubs from heavens light,

Whereas he sitting found in secret shade