Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. | | | | Miss Kilmansegg: Her Moral |
By Thomas Hood |
(Popular English poet and humorist; 1799–1845) |
| | | GOLD! Gold! Gold! Gold! | |
| Bright and yellow, hard and cold, | |
| Molten, graven, hammer’d, and roll’d; | |
| Heavy to get, and light to hold; | |
| Hoarded, barter’d, bought, and sold, | 5 |
| Stolen, borrow’d, squander’d, doled: | |
| Spurn’d by the young, but hugg’d by the old | |
| To the very verge of the churchyard mould; | |
| Price of many a crime untold: | |
| Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! | 10 |
| Good or bad a thousand-fold! | |
| How widely its agencies vary— | |
| To save—to ruin—to curse—to bless— | |
| As even its minted coins express, | |
| Now stamp’d with the image of Good Queen Bess, | 15 |
| And now of a bloody Mary. | | | | |
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