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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COMPENSATION; QUATRAIN, by THOMAS STEPHENS COLLIER
First Line: No ceaseless vigil with hard toil we keep
Last Line: And hunger cannot make its home with death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collyer, Thomas Stephens
First Line: No ceaseless vigil with hard toil we keep
Last Line: And hunger cannot make its home with death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collyer, Thomas Stephens
No ceaseless vigil with hard toil we keep,
And to grim want give but a passing breath;
For after labor comes the rest of sleep,
And hunger cannot make its home with death.
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