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Title: Anarchism
Author: Francis W. L. Adams
Date: 1894
Language: en
Topics: poetry
Source: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/anarchist-beginnings/francis-w-l-adams-anarchism-1894/

Francis W. L. Adams

Anarchism

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!