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

A Girl Strike-Leader

Florence Kiper Frank

(American poetess, born 1886)

A WHITE-FACED, stubborn little thing

Whose years are not quite twenty years,

Eyes steely now and done with tears,

Mouth scornful of its suffering—

The young mouth!—body virginal

Beneath the cheap, ill-fitting suit,

A bearing quaintly resolute,

A flowering hat, satirical.

A soul that steps to the sound of the fife

And banners waving red to war,

Mystical, knowing scarce wherefore—

A Joan in a modern strife.