Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. | | | | A Girl Strike-Leader |
By Florence Kiper Frank |
(American poetess, born 1886) |
| | | A WHITE-FACED, stubborn little thing | |
| Whose years are not quite twenty years, | |
| Eyes steely now and done with tears, | |
| Mouth scornful of its suffering— | |
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| The young mouth!—body virginal | 5 |
| Beneath the cheap, ill-fitting suit, | |
| A bearing quaintly resolute, | |
| A flowering hat, satirical. | |
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| A soul that steps to the sound of the fife | |
| And banners waving red to war, | 10 |
| Mystical, knowing scarce wherefore— | |
| A Joan in a modern strife. | | | | |
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