Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. | | | | Locksley Hall Fifty Years After |
By Alfred Tennyson |
(Probably the most popular of English lyrical poets; 1809–1892. Made Poet-laureate in 1850, and a baron in 1884) |
| | | IS it well that while we range with Science, glorying in the time, | |
| City children soak and blacken soul and sense in city slime? | |
| There among the gloomy alleys Progress halts on palsied feet; | |
| Crime and hunger cast out maidens by the thousand on the street; | |
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| There the master scrimps his haggard seamstress of her daily bread; | 5 |
| There the single sordid attic holds the living and the dead; | |
| There the smouldering fire of fever creeps across the rotted floor, | |
| And the crowded couch of incest, in the warrens of the poor. | | | | |
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