 SONG OF THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags. Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song...  th. Oxford, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Eton-College, Windsor-Castle, Winchester ... - Page 219by Johann Georg Kohl - 1844Full view - About this book
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