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

Where the shattered city falls:

They thought, behind their varnished doors,

Of diplomats, ambassadors,

Budgets, and loans and boundary-lines,

Coercions and re-calls.

The Charge

Slaughter! Slaughter! Slaughter!

The cold machines whirred on.

And strange things crawled amongst the wheat

With entrails dragging round their feet,