They ate up Earth and promised you The Heaven of an empty shell! ‘Twas theirs to say: ’twas yours to do, On pain of everlasting Hell! They rob and leave you helplessly For help of Heaven to cry and call; Heaven did not make your misery; The Earth was given for all.

— GERALD MASSEY, The Earth for All, My Lyrical Life, 2d Series, p. 232.