Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. | | | | Mother Wept |
By Joseph Skipsey |
(Contemporary English poet, whose work possesses a quaint simplicity, often suggesting Blake) |
| | | MOTHER wept, and father sighed; | |
| With delight a-glow | |
| Cried the lad, “Tomorrow,” cried, | |
| “To the pit I go.” | |
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| Up and down the place he sped,— | 5 |
| Greeted old and young; | |
| Far and wide the tidings spread; | |
| Clapped his hands and sung. | |
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| Came his cronies; some to gaze | |
| Rapt in wonder; some | 10 |
| Free with counsel; some with praise; | |
| Some with envy dumb. | |
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| “May he,” many a gossip cried, | |
| “Be from peril kept;” | |
| Father hid his face and sighed, | 15 |
| Mother turned and wept. | | | | |
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