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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A Warning

By Heinrich Heine

(Translated by Louis Untermeyer)

(See pages [97], [222], [744])

You will print such books as these!

Then you’re lost, my friend, that’s certain.

If you wish for gold and honor,

Write more humbly—bend your knees!

Aye, you must have lost your senses

Thus to speak before the people;