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

Tonight

Carlos Wupperman

(Contemporary American poet)

TONIGHT the beautiful, chaste moon

From heaven’s height

Scatters over the bridal earth

Blossoms of white;

And spring’s renewed glad charms unfold

Endless delight.

Such mystic wonder the hushed world wears,

Evil has fled

Far, far away; in every heart

God reigns instead.…

Tonight a starving virgin sells

Her soul for bread.