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

That phantom of grisly bone?

I hardly fear his terrible shape,

It seems so like my own—

It seems so like my own

Because of the fasts I keep;

O God! that bread should be so dear,

And flesh and blood so cheap!

“Work—work—work!

My labor never flags;

And what are its wages? A bed of straw,