Quote#Money & Wealth
With fingers weary and worn
Quote byThomas Hood · 1799–1845
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Song of the Shirt (1843), St. 1..
English (original)
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.”
— Thomas Hood
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There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.
I remember, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon Nor brought too long a day;
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy
And there is ev'n a happiness That makes the heart afraid!
His death which happened in his berth, At forty-odd befell: They went and told the sexton, and The sexton tolled the bell.
But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart.