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

The Freebooter’s Prayer
A Modern Version
(U. S. A., 1905)

Arthur Guiterman

(Contemporary American poet)

THOU, Whom rich and poor adore,

Grant me fifty millions more,

Earned or pilfered, foul or pure;

From man’s law hold me secure.

So, when I have gained of gold

All my coffers well can hold,

I may give, O Lord, for Thee,

One-sixteenth in Charity.