[Gutenberg 61234] • Common-Sense Country

Louisa Sarah Bevington (1845-1895), also known as Mrs. Guggenberger, was the author of Key-Notes (1879), Poems, Lyrics and Sonnets (1882), Common- Sense Country (1890), The Why I Ams (w William Morris) (1894), Liberty Lyrics (1895), Chiefly a Dialogue (1895), An Anarchist Manifesto (1895) and Anarchism and Violence (1896). "Comrades! the end of the world's at hand! Our round earth planet? Ah, no; The planet shall roll, and the great sun stand, The beautiful sea-waves break on the strand, The flowers and fruits shall cover the land- But the World and its ills shall go. Wherever has rested the golden smirch White livers prepare to hie; At sign from the gold god's tottering perch See, loth and lingering far in the lurch, Comes Mammon's black hireling, the politic Church, Canting the Socialist cry. "