#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,
<br>
In these homeless homes,
<br>
Where sin and shame and disease
<br>
And foul death comes;

‘Tis not when heart and brain
<br>
Would be still and forget
<br>
Men and women and children
<br>
Dragged down to the pit.

But when I hear them declaiming
<br>
Of “liberty,” “order” and “law,”
<br>
The husk-hearted gentleman
<br>
And the mud-hearted bourgeois,

That a sombre, hateful desire
<br>
Burns up slow in my breast,
<br>
To wreck the great, guilty temple.
<br>
And give us rest!