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London - ZaunköniG - 01.05.2012
London
The gorgeous stream of England's wealth goes by,
Mixed with the mud and refuse, as of old -
The hungry, homeless, naked, sick and cold;
Want mocked by waste and greedy luxury.
There, in their downy carriage-cushions, lie
Proud women whose fair bodies have been sold
And bought for coronet or merchant gold -
For whose base splendours envious maidens sigh.
Some day the social ban will fall on them -
On wanton rich who taunt their starving kin;
Some day the social judgement will condemn
These "wedded harlots" in their shame and sin.
A juster world shall separate them then
From all pure women and all honoured men.