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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In thousands to be shot at! Oh, a God,

That lies and steals and murders! Such a God

Passionate, dissolute, incontinent!

A God that starves in thousands, and ashamed,

Or shameless in the workhouse lurks; that sweats

In mines and foundries! An enchanted God,

Whose nostrils in a palace breathe perfume,

Whose cracking shoulders hold the palace up,

Whose shoeless feet are rotting in the mire!