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

Tainted Wealth

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

(German philosopher and poet, 1749–1832)

CAPACIOUS is the Church’s belly;

Whole nations it has swallowed down,

Yet no dyspepsia ’neath its gown;

The Church alone, in jewels drest,

Your “tainted wealth” can quite digest.