 | Thomas Hood - 1856 - 398 pages
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 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' Jives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! i( Work — work — work... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...0 ! Men, with Mothers and Wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creature's lives ! Stitch— stitch— stitch, In poverty, hunger, and...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
...Oh, 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 douhle thread, A shroud as we'll as a shirt. " But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1857 - 420 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,...seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work — work — work !... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...Oh, men, with mothers and wives 1 It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,...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... | |
 | Historical account - 1857 - 106 pages
...mothers 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...ereatures' livcs ! Stiteh — stiteh— stiteh ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a douhle thread, A SHROUD as well 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... | |
 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - Australasia - 1857 - 298 pages
...turf-cutters ! Think of that, ye poor starving London needle-women, who •Stitch, stitch, stitch I In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread A ebroud as well as a shirt I' Now for a mcicetiloine of advertisements — to all concerned. They are... | |
 | Lutheran Church - 1858 - 424 pages
...write ! In poverty, hunger and need, Writing at once our epitaph, As well as the lines you read. Bnt why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone?...so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because ofthefastl keep ; Alas I that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! Write — write... | |
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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. 
