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Author : Eugene Victor Debs

 : The Martyred Apostles of Labor

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And in this world 

 I saw how womanhood's fair flower had 

 Never space its petals to unfold. How 

 Childhood’s tender bud was crushed and trampled 

 Down in mire and filth too evil, foul, for beasts 

 To be partaken in. For gold I saw 

 The virgin sold, and motherhood was made 

 A mock and score.

I saw the fruit of labor 

 Torn away from him who toiled, to further 

 Swell the bursting coffers of the rich, while 

 Babes and mothers pined and died of want. 

 I saw dishonor and injustice thrive. I saw 

 The wicked, ignorant, greedy, and unclean, 

 By means of bribes and baseness, raised to seats 

 Of power, from whence with lashes pitiless 

 And keen, they scourged the hungry, naked throng 

 Whom first they robbed and then enslaved.


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     2 -- Added : April 15, 2020

     2 -- Updated : May 13, 2022

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