 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
 | Labor laws and legislation - 1974 - 2200 pages
...work, work. work. Till the stars shine through the roof. It's O to be a slave Stitch, stitch, stitch. In poverty, hunger, and dirt. Sewing at once, with...a shirt. But why do I talk of death. That phantom cf grisly bone? I heartedly fenr Its terrible shape. It seems so like my own. It seems so like my own... | |
 | Health - 1933 - 668 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 a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt!" "Work — work — work ! From weary chime to chime! Work — work — work ! As prisoners work for... | |
 | Pauline Adams, Emma S. Thornton - Michigan - 1982 - 164 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.20 The McGuffey Reader was so influential that many a Populist orator and labor spokesman quoted... | |
 | Peter Scheckner - Chartism - 1989 - 360 pages
...band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures'...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,... | |
 | Patricia Marks - Social Science - 1990 - 344 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 a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. [1843: 260] The measure of the distance that women had come almost fifty years later might be taken... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 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,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...1—6) 12 It is not linen you're wearing out But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch — stitch, (the following 7 poems) General Prologue 3 Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte o (1. 27-32) 13 Oh, God, that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! (1. 39-40) EBW;... | |
 | Teresa Anne Murphy - Business & Economics - 1992 - 260 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 a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt.15 13. The Mechanic, August 10, 1844. 14. EssexCounty Washingtonian (Lynn), October 12, 1843;... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 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...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,... | |
 | Anne Firor Scott - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 218 pages
...set type at your stands, or must the next generation still be doomed to Stitch — stitch — stitch In poverty, hunger, and dirt Sewing at once with a double thread A Shroud as well as a shirt! To this appeal "Mr. Post" was silent, but a year later he stated his position with an air of gallantry:... | |
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