Living
Who Are the Best Labourers?
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
You in good blinkers can see nothing shocking,
I shy and start before a crimson stocking;
I think what dippings and how deep have dyed
Those courtly trappings of unchristian pride;
Then, looking into the next field, perceive
Men work the better for less width of sleeve.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Who Are the Best Labourers?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/834/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Who Are the Best Labourers?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/834/.
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