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“O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Song of the Shirt.
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1a17f41c1cbe03f664a35b2b433a6c71cb2c5eeeae6b3d6686e956d3101771cf
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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