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" 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. "
The Wheat-sheaf; Or, Gleanings for the Wayside and Fireside ... - Page 157
1853 - 416 pages
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, with a Biographical Sketch

Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...O, men, with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; O, God ! that bread, should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work — work — work !...
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Our National Sinews; or, a word on, to, and for the working classes

Stephen SHIRLEY - 1855 - 210 pages
...dear, Oh ! men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you are wearing out, But human creatures lives. Stitch, stitch, stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt;...like my own. It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep ; Oh ! God that bread should be eo dear, And flesh and blood so cheap. Work, work, work,...
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Prose & verse; v.2. Whimsicalities, Whims & oddities; v.3. Poems, Hood's own ...

Thomas Hood - 1854 - 428 pages
...Oh ! men with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch— stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger,...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my ownIt seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep : Oh God ! that bread should be so dear, And...
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A grammar of the English language

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...
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 5

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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Our Antipodes: Or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies, with ...

Godfrey Charles Mundy - Antipodes Islands (N.Z.) - 1855 - 688 pages
...Think of that, ye Tipperary 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...
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 7

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...
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Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and ..., Volumes 46-47

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...
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The Harvard Magazine, Volume 1

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,...
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Miscellanea: Comprising Reviews, Lectures, and Essays, on Historical ...

Martin John Spalding - Church history - 1855 - 698 pages
...shape. And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank It teems so like my own : — tat sometimes Jailing there. It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, — u 0 ! but to breathe the breath 0 God! that bread should be to dear, . Of the cowslip and primrono...
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