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

(“How Long, O Lord, How Long?”)

By Robert Buchanan

(See pages [367], [412])

Cross-legg’d on the board we sat,

Like spiders spinning,

Stitching and sweating, while fat

Old Moses, with eyes like a cat,

Sat greasily grinning;

And here Tom said his say,

And prophesied Tyranny’s death;