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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Down on their slain the slayers lay,

And the shrapnel thrashed them into the clay,

And tossed their limbs like tattered birds

Thro’ a red volcanic sky.

War

(From “Songs of Joy”)

By William H. Davies

(An English poet whose “Autobiography of a Super-tramp” was given to the world with an introduction by Bernard Shaw)

Ye Liberals and Conservatives,