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PURGATORY OF SUICIDES: BOOK THE FIRST by THOMAS COOPER

Poet Analysis

First Line: SLAVES, TOIL NO MORE! WHY DELVE, AND MOIL, AND PINE,
Last Line: OF SOME WHO THOUGHT THE IRON NOW SHOULD PIERCE MY SOUL

Poem Sources:

AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHARTIST POETRY; POETRY OF THE BRITISH WORKING CLASS, 1830S-1850S.
  SCHECKNER, PETER (ED.)
  (1989)
 



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