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

But too low the cloth to wear.

We’re low, we’re low, we’re very, very low,

And yet when the trumpets ring,

The thrust of a poor man’s arm will go

Through the heart of the proudest king.

We’re low, we’re low—mere rabble, we know—

We’re only the rank and the file;

We’re not too low to kill the foe,

But too low to share the spoil.

Tom Dunstan: or, the Politician