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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In Bohemia

By John Boyle O’Reilly

(Irish-born American journalist, 1844-1890)

The thirsty of soul soon learn to know

The moistureless froth of the social show,

The vulgar sham of the pompous feast

Where the heaviest purse is the highest priest;

The organized charity, scrimped and iced,

In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.