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

It comes along a little wire,

Sunk in a deep sea;

It thins in the clubs to a little smoke

Between one joke and another joke,

For a city in flames is less than the fire

That comforts you and me.

The Diplomats

Each was honest after his way,

Lukewarm in faith, and old;

And blood, to them, was only a word,