#title Anarchism
#author Francis W. L. Adams
#SORTtopics poetry
#date 1894
#source https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/anarchist-beginnings/francis-w-l-adams-anarchism-1894/
#lang en
#pubdate 2020-06-11T10:55:36
Tis not when I am here,
In these homeless homes,
Where sin and shame and disease
And foul death comes;
‘Tis not when heart and brain
Would be still and forget
Men and women and children
Dragged down to the pit.
But when I hear them declaiming
Of “liberty,” “order” and “law,”
The husk-hearted gentleman
And the mud-hearted bourgeois,
That a sombre, hateful desire
Burns up slow in my breast,
To wreck the great, guilty temple.
And give us rest!