 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.  English Literature of the Nineteenth Century ... - Page 468by Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 746 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Collyns Walkey - 1868 - 76 pages
...dear, 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,...with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above my head And the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1868 - 544 pages
...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,...with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. v. " But w hy do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American poetry - 1868 - 710 pages
...a shirt. GARLAND. H5 " But why do I talk of Death, That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear hia terrible shape, It seems so like my own ! It seems so like my own Because of the fast I keep ; O God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap I " "Work — work — work !... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...Oh, men, with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out. But human creatures' lives ! Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as...my own — It 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... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 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,...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — The Song of the Shirt. 475 It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep. Oh ! God ! that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, wilh a double thread, A SHROUD as well as a sliirt! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly...It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep : O God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap 1 "Work— work— work 1 My labor... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 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...double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. But why do 1 talk of Death, That phantom of grisly bone? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1870 - 416 pages
...wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud aa well aa a shirt. "But why do I talk of Death? That phantom...my own — It 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... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...dear ! O men, with mothers and wives 1 It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch — stitch — In poverty, hunger,...shirt. "But why do I talk of death? That phantom of grizzly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1870 - 312 pages
...work ! My labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags. Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt." II. As to the Boys :— -Great difficulty is experienced in finding situations for the boys brought... | |
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