Social Commentaries
Superiority of Machinery
From The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood
Social Commentaries
A Mechanic his labour will often discard
If the rate of his pay he dislikes;
But a clock--and its case is uncommonly hard--
Will continue to work, tho' it strikes!
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Hood, Thomas. “Superiority of Machinery.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/147/.
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Hood, Thomas. “Superiority of Machinery.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/147/.
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