#title The Triumph of Civilization #author Freedom Press #LISTtitle The Triumph of Civilization #SORTauthors Freedom Press #SORTtopics Freedom Press, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism, civilization, poetry #date October, 1886 #source Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism, Vol. 1, No. 1, online source [[http://www.revoltlib.com/?id=3164][RevoltLib.com]], retrieved on May 8, 2020. #lang en #notes Freedom Press (ed.) On the outskirts of a great city,
A street of fashionable mansions well withdrawn from all the noise
and bustle;
And in the street--the only figure there--in the middle of the road,
in the bitter wind --
Red-nosed thin-shawled, with ankles bare and old boots--
A woman bent and haggard, croaking a dismal song. And the great windows stare upon her wretchedness, and stare across
the road upon each other,
With big fool eyes;
But not a door is opened, not a face is seen,
Nor form of life down all the dreary street,
To certify the existence of humanity,--
Other than hers.