Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. | | | A Warning
(Translated by Louis Untermeyer) |
By Heinrich Heine |
(German poet and essayist, one of the most musical and most unhappy of singers; 1797–1856) |
| | | YOU will print such books as these! | |
| Then you’re lost, my friend, that’s certain. | |
| If you wish for gold and honor, | |
| Write more humbly—bend your knees! | |
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| Aye, you must have lost your senses | 5 |
| Thus to speak before the people; | |
| Thus to dare to speak of Preachers | |
| And of Potentates and Princes. | |
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| Friend, you’re lost—so it appears— | |
| For the Princes have long arms, | 10 |
| And the Preachers have long tongues, | |
| —And the masses have long ears! | | | | |
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