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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Allurement of red vice and gold.

Women, blocks of heaped, blown meat,

Stand on low thresholds down the narrow street,

Calling to every man that passes;

Behind them, at the end of corridors,

Shine fires, a curtain stirs

And gives a glimpse of masses

Of mad and naked flesh in looking-glasses.

Hard by the docks

The street upon the left is ended by