“O ye wheels” (breaking out in a mad moaning),
“Stop! be silent for to-day!”
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E. B. Browning.
The Wail of the Children.
“To look at these half-starved children in London Schools is to be ‘full of pity.’ Very touching is it to think of the quiet heroism with which, when hunger is gnawing within and the dull misery of want overflows them, they sit uncomplaining at their little desks, toiling at their allotted tasks, wondering, no doubt, sometimes what it all means, but bearing their burdens patiently.”—Dr. Crichton-Browne’s Report on Over Pressure.
Do you hear the Children wailing in the daytime,
And the watches of the night:
Far too sad are they for pleasure in their playtime,