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The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform

Book by John Greenleaf Whittier · 3 quotes · Age, Blessed, Blood

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The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform Quotes

“Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.”

“The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant”