THE GREAT DISCARD
I see a mighty junk-heap rising high,Old bibles, crosses, crescents, six-point starsAnd other symbols, idol’s fetiches—The bloody tools of greed and superstition,That have tormented man for centuries,Disfiguring his body and his mind.I see the flags of all the various nations,In whose defense men slaughtered one anotherUpon this junk-heap also; and the booksWherein the laws are writ, that give to manThe power over man;And all the institutions that have helpedTo make of man an abject slave or tyrant,These, too, are on this junk-heap.
I see a mighty junk-heap rising high,Old bibles, crosses, crescents, six-point starsAnd other symbols, idol’s fetiches—The bloody tools of greed and superstition,That have tormented man for centuries,Disfiguring his body and his mind.I see the flags of all the various nations,In whose defense men slaughtered one anotherUpon this junk-heap also; and the booksWherein the laws are writ, that give to manThe power over man;And all the institutions that have helpedTo make of man an abject slave or tyrant,These, too, are on this junk-heap.
I see a mighty junk-heap rising high,Old bibles, crosses, crescents, six-point starsAnd other symbols, idol’s fetiches—The bloody tools of greed and superstition,That have tormented man for centuries,Disfiguring his body and his mind.I see the flags of all the various nations,In whose defense men slaughtered one anotherUpon this junk-heap also; and the booksWherein the laws are writ, that give to manThe power over man;And all the institutions that have helpedTo make of man an abject slave or tyrant,These, too, are on this junk-heap.
I see a mighty junk-heap rising high,
Old bibles, crosses, crescents, six-point stars
And other symbols, idol’s fetiches—
The bloody tools of greed and superstition,
That have tormented man for centuries,
Disfiguring his body and his mind.
I see the flags of all the various nations,
In whose defense men slaughtered one another
Upon this junk-heap also; and the books
Wherein the laws are writ, that give to man
The power over man;
And all the institutions that have helped
To make of man an abject slave or tyrant,
These, too, are on this junk-heap.