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" 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 198
by Emily Pierpont De Lesdernier - 1856 - 332 pages
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 1-2

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...
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th. Oxford, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Eton-College, Windsor-Castle, Winchester ...

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...
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Reisen in England und Wales, Volume 3

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...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

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,...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

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...
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Prose and Verse, Volumes 1-2

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...
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Voices of the True-hearted

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...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

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...
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The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio

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...
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The Use of the Body in Relation to the Mind

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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