The happy home : a library of entertainment, instruction and amusement, embracing seven instructive books in one volume (1909)
[s.l.] : W.E. Scull · leaf 63
\ 67 THOMAS HOOD “Work — work — work ! “ But why do I talk of death, Till the brain begins to swim • That phantom of grisly bone ? Work — work — work ! I hardly fear his terrible shape, Till the eyes are heavy and dim ! It seems so like my own — Seam, and gusset, and band, It seems so like my own,… … “ Oh God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! ” “ Work — work — work ! “ Oh ! men with sisters dear ! My labor never flags ; Oh ! men with mothers and wives ! And what are its wages? A bed of straw, It is not linen you’re wearing out, A crust of bread — and rags : But…
