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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... "
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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 1 ' ' Work — work — work ! My labor never flags; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust...
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The New Mirror, Volume 2

George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...Sewing at once, with a double tbread, A sbroud as well as a shirt. " But wby 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, O, God ! that bread should be so dear,...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 1-2

1844 - 878 pages
...? That phantom of grisly hone, 1 hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own. It Booms so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh God...bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap 1 Work — work— work ! My labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust...
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The Christian lady's magazine, ed. by Charlotte Elizabeth, Volume 21

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. " 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,...
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The United States Catholic Magazine and Monthly Review, Volume 6

1847 - 800 pages
...case may apply as well to laborers of the other sex, if not even better. " 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 1 keep, U God ! that bread should be to dear,...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

1844 - 858 pages
...Death ? That phantom of grisly hone, 1 hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems но like my own. It FM Kv| 5 { G j o : I 3 G : \ r g W HY 78bE > 5 \ l(r e ho во dear, And flesh and blood во cheap ! Work— work— work ! My labour never flags ; And what...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 8

1846 - 608 pages
...fear his terrible shape, It seems fo like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fusts I keep, Oh ! God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap !" But we had beat pause at once, or we should be won to insert the whole. Buy the book itself, fair...
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th. Oxford, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Eton-College, Windsor-Castle, Winchester ...

Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...Sewing at once, with a doable thread, Л Shroud as well as a Shirt *). But why do [ 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,...
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Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany, Volume 2

1844 - 646 pages
...sufficient food ? or had I bought a part of his life for my halfpenny ? I thought of the lines — " O God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap I" I looked round, and saw a man in a fur cap, sitting on the front of a populous spring-van. " Do...
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Ephemerides: Or, Occasional Recreations at the Sea Port Town of Tant-perd ...

Robert M. Hovenden - 1844 - 386 pages
...straights, that the sweat of their brow cannot purchase the bread which that alone might moisten. " Alas ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap !" Who shall plead their cause ? Who shall vindicate their right to a fair day's wages for a fair day's...
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