Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. | | | | London |
By William Blake |
(English poet and painter of strange and terrible visions. 1757–1827) |
| | | I WANDER through each chartered street, | |
| Near where the chartered Thames does flow; | |
| A mark in every face I meet, | |
| Marks of weakness, marks of woe. | |
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| In every cry of every man, | 5 |
| In every infant’s cry of fear, | |
| In every voice, in every ban, | |
| The mind-forged manacles I hear: | |
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| How the chimney-sweeper’s cry | |
| Every blackening church appals, | 10 |
| And the hapless soldier’s sigh | |
| Runs in blood down palace-walls. | |
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| But most, through midnight streets I hear | |
| How the youthful harlot’s curse | |
| Blasts the new-born infant’s tear, | 15 |
| And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse. | | | | |
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