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 their vile carcases now left unburièd.

Mammon Marriage

By George MacDonald

(Scotch novelist and clergyman, 1824-1905)

The croak of a raven hoar!

A dog’s howl, kennel-tied!

Loud shuts the carriage-door:

The two are away on their ghastly ride

To Death’s salt shore!