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Thomas Hood on Retirement

1799–1845 England

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When he's forsaken,
Wither'd and shaken,
What can an old man do but die?

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 of the Shirt.”

The Song of the Shirt (1843)

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