Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. | | | Kruppism
(From “The Present Hour”) |
By Percy Mackaye |
(American poet and dramatist, born 1875) |
| | | CROWNED on the twilight battlefield, there bends | |
| A crooked iron dwarf, and delves for gold, | |
| Chuckling: “One hundred thousand gatlings—sold!” | |
| And the moon rises, and a moaning rends | |
| The mangled living, and the dead distends, | 5 |
| And a child cowers on the chartless wold, | |
| Where, searching in his safety vault of mold, | |
| The kobold kaiser cuts his dividends. | |
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| We, who still wage his battles, are his thralls, | |
| And dying do him homage; yea, and give | 10 |
| Daily our living souls to be enticed | |
| Into his power. So long as on war’s walls | |
| We build engines of death that he may live, | |
| So long shall we serve Krupp instead of Christ. | | | | |
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