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“O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Song of the Shirt.
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6fb4a88925ad4a7b519b30fd983102096a33fba5556395d8ac626dfb85cc297c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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