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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Work with might and main,

Or with hand or heart,

Work with soul and brain,

Or with holy art,

Thread, or genius’ fire—

Make a vest, or verse—

If ’tis done for hire,

It is done the worse.

A Man of Genius