Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. | | | | A South-Sea Islander |
By Francis W. L. Adams |
(English poet and rebel, 1862–1893; his life, a brief struggle with poverty and disease, was ended by his own hand) |
| | | ALOLL in the warm clear water, | |
| On her back with languorous limbs | |
| She lies. The baby upon her breast | |
| Paddles and falls and swims. | |
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| With half-closed eyes she smiles, | 5 |
| Guarding it with her hands; | |
| And the sob swells up in my heart— | |
| In my heart that understands. | |
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| Dear, in the English country, | |
| The hatefullest land on earth, | 10 |
| The mothers are starved and the children die | |
| And death is better than birth! | | | | |
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