Social Commentaries
The Laborer
From A New Library of Poetry and Song, ed. William Cullen Bryant (1877)
Social Commentaries
Toiling in the naked fields,
Where no bush a shelter yields,
Needy Labor dithering stands,
Beats and blows his numbing hands,
And upon the crumping snows
Stamps in vain to warm his toes.
Though all's in vain to keep him warm,
Poverty must brave the storm,
Friendship none its aid to lend,
Constant health his only friend,
Granting leave to live in pain,
Giving strength to toil in vain.
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Clare, John. “The Laborer.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/clare/395/.
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