| Labor laws and legislation - 1974 - 2200 pages
...is crowing aloft. And 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....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
...dear! О men, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch— stitch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger and...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
...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,...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
...a dream! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch—stitch—stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with...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! My labour... | |
| Patricia Marks - Social Science - 1990 - 344 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. [1843: 260] The measure of the distance that women had come almost fifty years later might be taken... | |
| Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 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,...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! My labour... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...poverty, hunger, and dirt, (1. 1—6) 12 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. (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
...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,...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
...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...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! 幹活幹活幹活, 幹到眼睛又澀又昏。... | |
| Anne Firor Scott - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 218 pages
...brother editors, let our sisters set type at your stands, or must the next generation still be doomed to Stitch — stitch — stitch In poverty, hunger, and...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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