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

(From “The Present Hour”)

By Percy Mackaye

(See pages [561], [572])

God of us who kill our kind!

Master of this blood-tracked Mind

Which from wolf and Caliban

Staggers toward the star of Man—

Now, on Thy cathedral stair,

God, we cry to Thee in prayer!

Where our stifled anguish bleeds