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

A sun of doom forecasting on the Land

The shadow of the sceptre and the sword.”

To the United States Senate

By Vachel Lindsay

(Upon the arrival of the news that the United States Senate had declared the election of William Lorimer good and valid)

And must the Senator from Illinois

Be this squat thing, with blinking, half-closed eyes?

This brazen gutter idol, reared to power

Upon a leering pyramid of lies?