History & Politics
Placard for a Poll Bearing an Old Shirt
From Poetical Works, ed. Knight (1896), vol. VIII
History & Politics
If money’s slack,
The shirt on my back
Shall off, and go to the hammer:
Though I sell shirt and skin
By Jove I’ll be in,
And raise up a radical clamor!
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Wordsworth, William. “Placard for a Poll Bearing an Old Shirt.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wordsworth/892/.
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