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" Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal! "
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 47
1844
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 50

1861 - 676 pages
...weather is warm and bright, While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling As if to show me then- sunny backs And twit me with the spring. Oh ! but...primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of...
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The New Mirror, Volume 2

George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and hand, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd, As well as the weary hand. " Work— work— work...to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sw With the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used...
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The Christian lady's magazine, ed. by Charlotte Elizabeth, Volume 21

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...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 hand. " Work — work — work,...cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my bead, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel,' Before I knew...
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Reisen in England und Wales, Volume 3

Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...Cell ! wenn unter ben 2)a$rtnnen bie brutenben Sdjroalben jwitfdjern, 208 -Dos Sieb bet ШЬепп. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...primrose sweet, With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of...
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The United States Catholic Magazine and Monthly Review, Volume 6

1847 - 800 pages
...table — a broken cbair — And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there. 0 ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour, To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of...
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Prose and Verse, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...— work ! From weary chime to chime ; Work — work — work ! As prisoners work, for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band,...primrose sweet ; With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet : For only one short hour • To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes...
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Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pages
...— work ! From weary chime to chime ; Work — work — work ! As prisoners work, for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band,...primrose sweet ; With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet : For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...and gusset, and seam ; Seam, and gusset, and band ; Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd As well as the weary hand ! " Work — work — work,...primrose sweet ; With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of...
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The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio

Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...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...primrose sweet ; With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet : For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of...
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Voices of the True-hearted

1846 - 308 pages
...gusset, and seam, — Seam, and gusset, and band, — Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd, As well as the weary hand. " Work — work — work!...primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I need to feel, Before I knew the woes of...
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