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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The March of the Workers

By William Morris

(English poet and artist, 1834-1896; founder of the “Arts and Crafts” movement, and a lifelong Socialist)

What is this—the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear,

Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near,

Like the rolling-on of ocean in the eventide of fear?

’Tis the people marching on.

Chorus

Hark the rolling of the thunder!