The neighbours fetched a doctor in :
Said he, "'This wound I dread
Can hardly be sewed up -
his life Is hanging on a thread.
(Tim Turpin)
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Another tumble That 's his precious nose.Thomas Hood
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread, Stitch stitch stitch.
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O God that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap.
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A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
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There 's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.
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It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed
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