Voice of the Voiceless

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I am the Voice of the Voiceless

Through me the dumb shall speak 

'Til the world's deaf ear be made to hear

And speak the word for beast and bird


Oh shame on the mothers of mortals

Who do not stoop to teach

The sorrow that lies in dear dumb eyes

The sorrow that has no speech.


From street, from cage, from kennel

From stable and from zoo

The wail of my tortured kin proclaims the sin

Of the mighty against the frail.


But I am my brother's keeper

And I shall fight their fight

Till the world shall set things right.

The wrongs of the wordless weak.



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