Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. | | | | To a Nine-inch Gun |
By P. F. McCarthy |
(This poem came to the New York World office on a crumpled piece of soiled paper. The author’s address was given as Fourth Bench, City Hall Park) |
| | | WHETHER your shell hits the target or not, | |
| Your cost is Five Hundred Dollars a Shot. | |
| You thing of noise and flame and power, | |
| We feed you a hundred barrels of flour | |
| Each time you roar. Your flame is fed | 5 |
| With twenty thousand loaves of bread. | |
| Silence! A million hungry men | |
| Seek bread to fill their mouths again. | | | | |
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