Edwin Markham Quote

Through this dread shape the suffering ages look;
Time's tragedy is in the aching stoop;
Through this dread shape humanity betrayed,
Plundered, profaned, and disinherited,
Cries protest to the Powers that made the world.
A protest that is also a prophecy.

The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899) - The Man With the Hoe (1898)