 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 páginas
...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 1 6. "Work! work! work! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 páginas
...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* ! 6. "Work! work! work! My labor never flags; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw', A crust of... | |
 | 1858 - 424 páginas
...terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because ofthefastl keep ; Alas I that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! Write — write — write ! My labor never nags ; And what are its wages? A bed of straw, A little... | |
 | Plague Spot - 1859 - 632 páginas
...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 ! " Work— work— work ! My labour never flags. And what are its wages PA bed of straw, A crust of... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 páginas
...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 ! " Work ! work ! work ! My labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? a bed of straw, A crust of... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 páginas
...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 ! " Work— work — work ! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | E. K. Washington - 1860 - 708 páginas
...get wages ridiculously small; scarce a dime a day, reminding one of Hood's " Song of the Shirt." " 0 God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap 1" It is said they have generally five hundred thousand dollars' worth of flax in course of manipulation.... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 394 páginas
...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 ! " "Work — -work — work ! My labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 páginas
...his 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 ! " Work, work, work ! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 páginas
...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 ! " Work — work — work ! My labor 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... 
