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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Whose streets with tears are wet,

And half thy councils given unto hate!

Shall Time not hurl thy temples stone from stone,

And o’er the ruin set

A fairer city than the years have known?

Out of thy darkness do we find us dreams,

And on the future gleams

The vision of thy ramparts built anew.

Mammon and War sit now a double throne,

Yet what we dream, a wiser Age shall do.