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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Their wounds cry out until I grow afraid.

It comes—the signal! See, the dead men rise,

They fight again, amid the roar they fight.

Blindly, and knowing not for whom, or why,

They fight, they fall, they sink into the night.

Trousers[F]

(From “A Motley”)

By John Galsworthy

(English novelist and dramatist, born 1867)