O men with Sisters dear ! 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. Christian Pamphlets - Page 621852Full view - About this book
| Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...It is not linen you' re wearing out, But human creature's lives ! 158 Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once, with...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Alas ! that bread should be so dear,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...— stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at ouce, with a double thread, A siinuuu as well as a shirt! " But why do I talk of death,...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fast 1 keep : 0 God ! that bread should be so dear,... | |
| Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Cities and towns - 1853 - 204 pages
...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." Such, then, are some of the features of the Lower Depths of Vice, and the Lower Depths of Destitution.... | |
| Churches of Christ - 1853 - 588 pages
...out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch 1 stitch ! stitch ! Through poverty, hunger, and dirt, Scwing at once, with a double thread, 'A shroud as well as a skirt \" We are truly glad to see young girls standing at the counter selling goods ; it suits them... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 428 pages
...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...like my ownIt seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep : Oh God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work— work—... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...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...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; O, God ! that bread, should be so dear,... | |
| Stephen SHIRLEY - 1855 - 210 pages
...and wives, It is not linen you are wearing out, But human creatures lives. Stitch, stitch, stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt; Sewing at once with...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own. It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep ; Oh ! God that bread should be eo dear, And... | |
| Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1854 - 424 pages
...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...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear,... | |
| Seacome Ellison - 1854 - 120 pages
...staff the eightieth year of this my misspent life." 3d. Multipliers ; as, single, double, triple. " Sewing at once with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt." HOOD. 4th. Compound; as, biennial, trilateral, monopetalous. " A monopetalous corolla consists of several... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...has not wept over the Song of the Shirt } Who has not sympathized with the tenant of the garret — In poverty, hunger, and dirt Sewing at once with a double thread A shrond as well as a shirt ! — until the very names, " needle-work" and " needle-women." become associated... | |
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