Lines by Stephen Crane. Upton Sinclair, ed. 1915. The Cry for Justice

Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.

Lines

By Stephen Crane

(American novelist and poet, 1870–1900)


“HAVE you ever made a just man?”
“Oh, I have made three,” answered God,
“But two of them are dead,
And the third—
Listen! listen,	5
And you will hear the thud of his defeat.…”