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...holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the hroken door ; There, where the putrid vapors flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through...dwell there; Heart-broken matrons on their joyless beds, Forsaken wives and mothers never wed, Dejected widows, with unheeded tears, And crippled age....

...Village.' Theirs is yon house that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mnd scarce bears the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And...day ; There children dwell who know no parents' care ; Parentf, who know no children's love, dwell there ; Heart-broken matrons ou their joyless bed, Forsaken...

...decency. Theirs is yon house, that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day. Such is that room which one rude beam divides, And naked rafters form the sloping sides : Where the...

...VtSage.' Theirs is yon house that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud ecnrce bears the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And...day ; There children dwell who know no parents' care ; Parent-, who know no children's love, dwell there ; Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken...

...bears the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, frigging. play, And the dull « heel hum- doleful through the day ; There children dwell who know no parents' care ; Parent?, who know DO children's love, dwell there ; H-'art-brukeii matrons on their joyless bod,...

..." Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And...through the day ; — There children dwell, who know no parent's care — Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there I Dejected widows with unheeded...

...Theirs is yon house that holds the parish poor, Whoso walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; 230 There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through tho day ; — There children dwell who know no parents' care ; Parents, who know no children's love,...

...of a country workhouse could never be forgotten by any who had once read it : — "There, whero tho putrid vapours flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day," nor could the story of Phoebe Dawson. Crabbe was a man of extreme gentleness and meekness, who never...

...century, we can see yon house that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mnd scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day. 23. Crabbe's style, like the style of every genuine writer and thinker, is not to be dissociated from...