The Freebooter’s Prayer, A Modern Version (U. S. A., 1905) by Arthur Guiterman. Upton Sinclair, ed. 1915. The Cry for Justice

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

The Freebooter’s Prayer
A Modern Version
(U. S. A., 1905)

By Arthur Guiterman

(Contemporary American poet)


THOU, Whom rich and poor adore,
Grant me fifty millions more,
Earned or pilfered, foul or pure;
From man’s law hold me secure.
So, when I have gained of gold	5
All my coffers well can hold,
I may give, O Lord, for Thee,
One-sixteenth in Charity.