Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. | | | | The New Rome |
By Robert Buchanan |
(English novelist and dramatist, 1814–1901) |
| | | A THOUSAND starve, a few are fed, | |
| Legions of robbers rack the poor, | |
| The rich man steals the widow’s bread, | |
| And Lazarus dies at Dives’ door; | |
| The Lawyer and the Priest adjust | 5 |
| The claims of Luxury and Lust | |
| To seize the earth and hold the soil, | |
| To store the grain they never reap; | |
| Under their heels the white slaves toil, | |
| While children wail and women weep!— | 10 |
| The gods are dead, but in their name | |
| Humanity is sold to shame, | |
| While (then as now!) the tinsel’d Priest | |
| Sitteth with robbers at the feast, | |
| Blesses the laden blood-stain’d board, | 15 |
| Weaves garlands round the butcher’s sword, | |
| And poureth freely (now as then) | |
| The sacramental blood of Men! | | | | |
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