Rent and bleeding,
Upon her knees
She cried, “Mercy!”
The voice of Justice,
Mockingly, inquired,
“What of mercy have you shown?”
Four hundred thousand,
Armless colonists,
Raised nubs-grim evidence.
(Raymond Garfield Dandridge)
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