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

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Bless the souls of them that fall.

A Modern Version

(U. S. A., 1905)

By Arthur Guiterman

(Contemporary American poet)

Thou, Whom rich and poor adore,

Grant me fifty millions more,

Earned or pilfered, foul or pure;

From man’s law hold me secure.

So, when I have gained of gold