 Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 471844Full view - About this book
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...never flags ¡ And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A cruet of bread — and rags, That ghatter'd roof— and this naked floor — A table — a broken...Work — work — work, AS prisoners work for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and hand, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd,... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...never flags; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags. That shatter'd roof— and this naked floor A table — a broken...— work — work — As prisoners work for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd,... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...halte, O ®ott ! baf йЧ-оЬ fo t&euer tfi unb gleifcl) unb SBlut fo 2>aé Sieb ber SWbertn. 207 And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes...Work ! work! work — As prisoners work for crime ! Band, and gösset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heard is sick, and the brain beoumb'd,... | |
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...gieidj, wegen ber gaften, bie iá) íjalte. O ®ott ! baf Stob fo tbeuer ift unb unb SSlut fo bfflíg ! And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there! *) t. Work ! work ! work ! From weary chime to chime, Work ! work! work — As prisoners work for crime... | |
 | 1847 - 800 pages
...bread — and rags. That shattered roof— and this naked floor — A table — a broken cbair — And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there. 0 ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head And... | |
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...! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags : A shattered roof — and this naked floor — A table...Work — work — work ! As prisoners work, for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick and the brain benumbed,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags : A shattered roof — and this naked floor — A table...Work — work — work ! As prisoners work, for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick and the brain benumbed,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags : A- shatter'd roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken...Work — work — work, As prisoners work, for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam ; Seam, and gusset, and band ; Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd... | |
 | Grace Webster - 1845 - 910 pages
...forthwith set out upon his long journey. CHAPTER III. A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags, That shattered roof — and this naked floor, A table...— my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! PUNCH. THE miser's hut was on a moor, and so low that at a little distance it appeared but as a slight... | |
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...! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags : A shattered roof— and this naked floor— A table...Work — work — work ! As prisoners work, for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick and the brain benumbed,... | |
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