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Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest.  1915.
 
Priests
(From “Songs for the New Age”)

By James Oppenheim

(American poet and novelist; born 1882)
 
PRIESTS are in bad odor,
And yet there shall be no lack of them.
The skies shall not lack a spokesman,
Nor the spirit of man a voice and a gesture.
 
Not garbed nor churched,        5
Yet, as of old, in loneliness and anguish,
They shall come eating and drinking among us,
With scourge, pity, and prayer.
 
 
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