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 - Unknown

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(Probably the most popular of American poets, 1807-1882)

This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling,

Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms;

But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing

Startles the villages with strange alarms.

Ah! what a sound will rise—how wild and dreary—

When the death-angel touches those swift keys!

What loud lament and dismal Miserere