 Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.  The New Mirror - Page 332edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags : A shattered roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken...blank my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there I 7. " Work — work — work ! From weary chime to chime ; Work — work — work ! Band, and gusset,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags : A shatter' (1 roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken chair' — And a wall so blank, my shadSw I thankj For sometimes falling there !* 7. "Work — work — work! From weary chime to chime... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...? a bed of straw, A crust of bread and rags. That shatter'd roof—and this naked floorA table—a broken chair— And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! Work I work ! work ! From weary chime to chime, Work ! work ! work ! As prisoners work for crime ! Band... | |
 | Richard Newton - Bible - 1864 - 216 pages
...never flags ; And what are its wages 1 A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags. That shatter'd roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken...Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd, As well as the weary hand." Who can help feeling... | |
 | Alexander McAuslane - 1864 - 406 pages
...whose toil has been so pathetically described by the oftrepeated, yet ever-touching lines : — t " Work — work — work ! From weary chime to chime...Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand." Truly your lot is... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags. That shattered roof— and this naked floor — A table — a broken...Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand. ' Work — work —... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags ! That shattered roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken...Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band — Till the heart is sick and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand. " Work — work... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — This shattered roof— and this naked floor A table— a broken chair...For sometimes falling there ! " Work— work— work 1 From weary chime to chime, Work — work — work, As prisoners work for crime I Band, and gusset,... | |
 | Christian life - 1866 - 392 pages
...labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread, and rags. That shatter'd roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken...blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there." What is it that makes her, in the midst of her weariness, so unflagging in her industry? Is it mere... | |
 | 1866 - 858 pages
...tho; take only a few hours' sloop, otherwise they couU not earn enough to keep themselves alivo. " Work — work — work, From weary chime to chime; Work - work — work, As prisoners work for crime ! THE DEEPER DEPTH. 371 " Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and banJ, 'Till the heart ia... | |
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