Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
They Will SayCarl Sandburg
From “Days”
O
You took little children away from the sun and the dew,
And the glimmers that played in the grass under the great sky
And the reckless rain; you put them between walls
To work, broken and smothered, for bread and wages,
To eat dust in their throats and die empty-hearted
For a little handful of pay on a few Saturday nights.