 O men with mothers and wives ! it is not linen you're wearing out, but human creatures' lives. Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! in poverty, hunger, and dirt ; sewing at once, with a double thread, a shroud as well as a shirt. " But why do I talk of Death ?...  The New Mirror - Page 332edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
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...like my own.... — It seems so like my own, because of the fasts I keep : — Alas ! that bread could be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap ! « Work,...: — And what are its wages? A bed of straw.... a cust of bread.... and rags; — That shattered roof.... and this naked floor.... a table.... a broken... | |
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...keep; Oh God! that bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap! "Work—work—work! My labor 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 chair,—... | |
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