 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
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 586 pages
...antithesis ;) here are a few examples. In the " Song of the Shirt," he tells us that the singer sat " Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt." And she cries, " 0, God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap !" What handwriting... | |
 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - Antipodes Islands (N.Z.) - 1855 - 688 pages
...turf-cutters ! Think of that, ye poor starving London needle-women, who " Stitch, stitch, stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread A shrond as well as a shirt ! " Xow for a macedoine of advertisements — to all concerned. They are... | |
 | 1855 - 576 pages
...employ a few of those accomplished needle-women of whom the poet tells, who, so conveniently, " Sew at once with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt " ? It would at least allow men to be a little more decent and respectable, whether in living, dying,... | |
 | 1855 - 1226 pages
...antithesis ;) here arc a few Ц>1». In the "Song of the Shirt," he tells ta the ringer eat "Siwipg at once with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt." And she cries, " Oh, God ! that bread should ho so dear, And flesh and blood go ch'cap !" What handwriting... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...Wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' Jives ! 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,... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...Wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creature's lives ! Stitch— stitch— stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with...shirt ! But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grfely bone, 1 hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own— It seems so like my own,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...creatures' lives ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing, at once, with a douhle thread, A shroud as we'll as a shirt. " But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly hone, I hardly fear his terrihle shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1857 - 420 pages
...'. 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,... | |
 | Historical account - 1857 - 106 pages
...and wives, It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. Stitch ! stiteh ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt ! I give but part of the song, but it is sufficient to remind us how fit are these bazaars to teach... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...and wives 1 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. 5. "But why do I talk of Death, That f Phantom of grisly +bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It... | |
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