 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It 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 ! 6. "Work — work — work! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...of death, That phantom of grisly bone, It 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! VI. " Work — work — work ! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 pages
...shape, It seems so like 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— work ! My labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | Daniel Stevens Dickinson - New York (State) - 1867 - 748 pages
...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 1 " Here where we see woman happy, respected, and elevated, we recognize a source of many blessings,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, 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 I VI " Work—work—work ! My labor never flags; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; 0 God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap I 6. "Work — work — work! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...shape, It seems so like 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— work ! My labor never flags ; And whac are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...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 1 " Work — work — work I My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...shape, It seems so like 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 — work ! My labor never flags; And what are its wages? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...own — The Song of the Shirt. 475 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 — work ! My labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
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But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like 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... 
