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. Berenice: A Novel - Page 198by Emily Pierpont De Lesdernier - 1856 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1844 - 878 pages
...A table — a broken chair — And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! Work — work — work ! From weary chime to chime...prisoners work for crime? ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is bick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary... | |
| Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...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...— As prisoners work for crime ! Band, and gusset, end seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heard is sick, and the brain benumb'd, As well as the... | |
| Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...Slut fo billig ! . .-. .. i. And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there! *) Work! work! work! From weary chime to chime, 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, As well... | |
| 1844 - 858 pages
...A table — a broken chair — And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! Work — work — work ! From weary chime to chime...Work — work— work ! As prisoners work for crime ! Hand, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...table — a broken chair — And a wall so blank my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! " Work — work — work ! From weary chime to chime...prisoners work, for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam ; Seam, and gusset, and band ; Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd As well as the weary... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...table — a broken chair — And a wall so blank my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! " Work — work — work ! From weary chime to chime...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... | |
| 1846 - 302 pages
...floor ; A table, a broken chair, And a wall so blank my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there! "Work — work— work ! From weary chime to chime,...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, As well as... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...table — a broken chair — And a wall so blank my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! " Work — work — work ! From weary chime to chime...prisoners work, for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam ; Seam, and gusset, and band ; Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd As well as the weary... | |
| Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...table — a broken chair — And a wall so blank my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! " Work — work — work ! From weary chime to chime...prisoners work, for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the beart is sick and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary... | |
| George Moore - 1847 - 392 pages
...as they aptly term it, or starved subsistence, by making shirts at five farthings a-piece ! These " Work — work — work, From weary chime to chime...Work — work — work, As prisoners work for crime." It is true that a solacing thought may spring up, like starlight in the darkness of such an existence... | |
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