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Excerpt from Week-Day Poems
One after one, they found the rule Broken upon life's way. And now they brought their shillings back, Their shillings five or seven, And hope once more had found a crack To shine on us from heaven Our spending grew and counted up To two pounds ten a week: Each body had daily bite and sup, And each grew almost sleek. It couldn't last, the children moved And made their scattered beds, Their mother died and I had proved Too hard my vigour's threads. With hair gone grey and muscle stiff, Eye dim and hearing slow, I stand at fifty on the cliff And feel the surf below. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
