Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. | | | | In the Strand |
By Arthur Symons |
(English poet and critic, 1865–1945) |
| | | WITH eyes and hands and voice convulsively | |
| She craves the bestial wages. In her face | |
| What now is left of woman? whose lost place | |
| Is filled with greed’s last eating agony. | |
| She lives to be rejected and abhorred, | 5 |
| Like a dread thing forgotten. One by one | |
| She hails the passers, whispers blindly; none | |
| Heeds now the voice that had not once implored | |
| Those alms in vain. The hour has struck for her, | |
| And now damnation is scarce possible | 10 |
| Here on the earth; it waits for her in hell. | |
| God! to be spurned of the last wayfarer | |
| That haunts a dark street after midnight! Now | |
| Shame’s last disgrace is hot upon her brow. | | | | |
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