Stephen Campbell
Nov 2, 2019
7/10
A powerful and personalised indictment of church and state-sanctioned abuse in a country once run by the clergy
>Is this a holy thing to see,
>In a rich and fruitful land,
>Babes reduced to misery,
>Fed with cold and usurous hand?
- William Blake; "Holy Thursday"; Songs of Experience (1794)
- Richard Cherry; "Juvenile crime and its prevention" (Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland); Vol.XII, Part XCI (January, 1911)
- Austin Clarke; "A Simple Tale"; Flight to Africa: And Other Poems (1963)