Since true is my "Song of the Dance?"
CECIL MAXWELL LYTE.
London Society, November, 1877.
THE SONG OF THE SOLDIER'S SHIRT.
(In 1879 it was announced that the wages of the women working at the Army Clothing Department, Pimlico, had been reduced from 20 to 25 per cent.)
WITH fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat 'neath a Government roof,
Plying her needle and thread.