God and the Strong Ones
By Margaret Widdemer
(Contemporary American poet.)
“We have made them fools and weak!” said the Strong Ones:
“We have crushed them, they are dumb and deaf and blind;
We have crushed them in our hands like a heap of crumbling sands,
We have left them naught to seek or find:
They are quiet at our feet,” said the Strong Ones;
“We have made them one with wood and stone and clod;
Serf and laborer and woman, they are less than wise or human!—”