...over. Head. CHAPTER VIII. ATHALIA, THE SEWING GIRL. " How fall of briars is this working day world." " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread." ATHALIA wore not unwomanly rags at the period when I shall commence her history. She was clad in the...

...ease my heart, Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !'' With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and flirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang...

...ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red; A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger,...

...want, And the walk that costs a meal! 10. Oh 1 but for one short hour! A trespite, however brief 1 No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time...sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread: CLIX. — CHATHAM ON THE AMERICAN WAR. 1. I CAN NOT, my lords, I will not, join in congratulation on...

...ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tones could reach the rich ! — She sang this " Song of the Shirt!" THOMAS HOOD. Jauq. IT was at Rome...

...meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! THE SONG OF THE S1IIBT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids'heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt ! " " "Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work...

...now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a hoy. THE BONG OF THE 8HIRT. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rage, Plying her needle and thread— Stiteh! stitch! stiteh! • In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And...

...shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and rod, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! Stitch 1 Stitoh ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still witli a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the "...

...connection with sin, it might have proved suggestive to him when he wrote his song of " The Shirt :" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and...

...might have been good ground of complaint. There was a little poem of Hood's, that began thus: — •'' With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...dirt, And still, with a, voice of dolorous pitch, She sang 'the song of the Shirt.'" The author of these lines has recently been pensioned, and I have...