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

From Max Rogosky’s place—

And oh, the fearful touch of flame

On hand and breast and face!

All day the white-lipped mothers came

To search the sheeted dead;

And Horror strode the blackened walls.

Where Death had walked in red.

But Max Rogosky did not weep.

(He knew that tears were vain.)

He paid the System’s price, and lived