 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 Study of Life - Page 14by Henry Macnaughton Jones - 1874 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...dear! O men, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you "re wearing out! But human creatures' lives I Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt! " But why do I talk of Death — That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...or left ; it may be curiosity, for Shragg has wide ears. The pieman comes to the fourth verse — " O ! men, with sisters dear, O ! men, with mothers and wives, It is uot linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch, stitch, stitch! In poverty, hunger,... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...with mothers and wivee ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! sin i'Ii — stitch — stitch. In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double tbread, A sbroud as well as a shirt. " But wby do I talk of Death — That phantom of grisly bone,... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons 1 fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream. " O ! Men, with sisters dear ! O ! Men ! with mothers...with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. " But why do I talk of Death ! That Phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...asleep. And sew them on in a dream ! 0 ! men, with sisters dear ! O ! men, with mothers and wives I It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures'...with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly hone, 1 hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - Great Britain - 1844 - 316 pages
...3Seiber feine ©eeíe íjaben ! ift baê eine djrifílidjeJírbcit? 0 ! Mon, with Sisters dear ! 0 ! Men , with Mothers and Wives ! It is not linen you're...lives! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger an dirt, Sewing at once, with a doable thread, Л Shroud as well as a Shirt *). But why do [ talk of... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I full asleep. And saw them on in a dream. '"O! Men, with Sisters dear ! O! Men, with Mothers...not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lived! Stitch — stich — stitch. In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing nt onre, with a double thread,... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...©d}laf oerfaUe unb fie annähe im Kvaume ! 206 So* Sieb bet 0 ! Men, with Sisters dear ! 0 ! Mea , with Mothers and Wives ! It is not linen you're wearing...lives! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger an dirt, Sewing at »иге, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt *). Bat why do I talk... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
...asleep, And sew them on in a dream 1 0 ! men, with sisters near ! О ! men, with mothers and wir« ! ܘ/ L +n,; 0 ڍ| ] : . Sowing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as welt os a shirt. But why do I talk of Death ? That... | |
 | American periodicals - 1867 - 854 pages
...men! The reader may remember a later echo of .the same wild figure — Oh, men with sisters dear ! Oh, men with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. Lady Nairne has many stirring and sweet Jacobite songs. She had more title to Jacobite association,... | |
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