The most appalling thing on history's page, And earth's most damning curse since time began Is this -- man's inhumanity to man... He has not ceased in warfare to engage, For savage instincts still his heart enrage... The robber baron's autocratic plan In dreary serfdom kept his peasant clan, And still Finance's barons dole the wage. But towering darkly other wrongs above, Stands out the way that man has forced his creeds Throughout the earth by flame's and sword's decrees -- Disciples of a man meek as a dove Have in his name done bloody, fiendish deeds. And staged ten thousand reddened Calvarys! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE OLD TRAMP by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER SONNET: MAN VERSUS ASCETIC. 5 by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON THOUGHTS NEAR ASHAMPSTEAD AERODROME, HARVEST-TIME by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB THE ARTIST MAY by EDITH HILL CARNES TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A LONG JOURNEY by EDWARD CARPENTER |