The Last Word by Matthew Arnold. 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 Last Word

By Matthew Arnold

(English essayist and poet, 1822–1888)


THEY out-talk’d thee, hiss’d thee, tore thee.
Better men fared thus before thee;
Fired their ringing shot and pass’d,
Hotly charged—and broke at last.

Charge once more, then, and be dumb!	5
Let the victors, when they come,
When the forts of folly fall,
Find thy body by the wall.