Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968). rn The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.
Locksley Hall Fifty Years AfterTennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron
Alfred Tennyson
(Probably the most popular of English lyrical poets; 18091892. Made Poet-laureate in 1850, and a baron in 1884)I
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;
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.