The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant
John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.150, tredition
