...and so I will fulfil my destiny, and, like the woman in the " song of the shirt," "Work, work, work I In the dull December light, And work, work, work ! When the weather is warm and bright." With love to your mother, Melissa, and Charley, I remain Your affectionate uncle, DS DICKINSON. MR....

...mute expression — and yet an expression stronger than any language could frame — of that longing ' to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above their heads, And the grass beneath their feet,' '53 which the town-bound poor feel — a longing which...

...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...weather is warm and bright ; "While underneath the eavea The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring....

...even as they used to sound in those other gardens of my youth, in far away halfforgotten England. " While underneath the eaves, The brooding swallows...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring." And I am sorry— sorry for it all, for the"daysthat are no more." For pleasant, smiling, fragrant...

...Till the heart is sick and the brain benumb'd As well as the weary hand ! " Work— work— work I In the dull December light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright ; no While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And...

...out-door holiday — a holiday to be spent, if possible, in some green spot of earth, where you may " breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above your head And the grass beneath your feet" — those of the unwashed whose lot it is to dwell in stony,...

...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,...breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal 1 " Oh...

...Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand. Work ! work ! work ! In...work ! work ! When the weather is warm and bright I While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit...

...and gusset, and l>:ind, Till the heart is sick and the brain benumb'd, As well as the weary hand I " Work — work — work, In the dull December light:...the weather is warm and bright: While underneath the caves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring....

...time is not waste time necessarily. Indeed, in this life of steam, and high-pressure, and work — " Work — work— work — In the dull December light,...work — work, When the weather is warm and bright," — more pauses are needed, lest men should become machines. Far from grudging the Sunday pause, employers...