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| Philip Lawrence - Recitations - 1871 - 410 pages
...work — work Work — work — • work Till the eyes are heavy and dim ! Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream ! " O men, with sisters dear ! O men, with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...begins to swim ! Work — work — work Till the eyes are heavy and dim ! Seam, and gusset, and band. , 'mong gluttons and girls. A graceless, worthless wight thou must be ; No German maid de drtam ! " 0 men with sisters dear ! 0 men with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you 're wearing... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1872 - 472 pages
...begins to swim ; Work — work — work Till the eyes are heavy and dim ! Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream ! " Oh, Men, with Sisters dear ! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out,... | |
| Anna Randall Diehl - Elocution - 1872 - 460 pages
...begins to swim ; Work — work — work Till the eyes are heavy and dim I Seam and gusset and band, Band and gusset and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream I " Oh, men with sisters dear I Oh, men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you 're wearing out,... | |
| Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pages
...begins to swim; Work — work — work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! THOMAS HOOD. " Oh, men, with sisters dear ! Oh, men, with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're... | |
| American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...begins to swim ! Work — work — work Till the eyes are heavy and dim ! Seam, and gusset, and band, a lo ! "0 men with sisters dear ! 0 men with mothers and wives I It is not linen you 're wearing out, But... | |
| Readers - 1872 - 514 pages
...begins to swim, Work — work — work, Till the eyes are heavy and dim ! Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream ! " Oh ! men, with sisters dear ! Oh ! men, with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing... | |
| Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...brain begins to swim ; Work, work, work, Till the eyes are heavy and dim 1 Seam and gusset and band, Band and gusset and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in my dream I " O men with sisters dear I O men with mothers and wives I It is not linen you're wearing... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1873 - 348 pages
...begins to swim ; Work — work — work Till the eyes are heavy and dim ! Seam and gusset and band, Band and gusset and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep And sew them on in a dream I , Work — work — work ! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
| Philology - 1891 - 368 pages
...begins to swim; — Work, work, work! till Ihe eyes are heavy and dim. — Seam, and gusset, and band band, and gusset, and seam, — Till over the buttons I fall asleep, and sew them on in a dream! « 0 men with sisters dear! о men with mothers and wives! — It is not linen you 're wearing out,... | |
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