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“With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread,-- Stitch! Stitch! Stitch!”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Song of the Shirt.
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d13535f969954c59132505623e159296917c7506b0190ac1f937e5fbde89ff36
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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