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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By Seymour Deming

(Contemporary American writer)

The old idea of romance: The country boy goes to the city, marries his employer’s daughter, enslaves some hundreds of his fellow humans, gets rich, and leaves a public library to his home town.

The new idea of romance: To undo some of the mischief done by the old idea of romance.

The Soul’s Errand

By Sir Walter Raleigh

(Written by the English soldier and statesman, 1552-1618, just before his execution)

Go, Soul, the body’s guest,

Upon a thankless errand;

Fear not to touch the best;