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That's the cry that mocked us madly, Toiling in our living graves, When hell-mines sent up the chorus: "_Britons never shall be slaves_!" "Liberty!" We care not for it! What we care for's food, clothes, homes, For our dear ones toiling, waiting For the time that never comes! IN THE EDGWARE ROAD. (To LORD L----.) Will you not buy? She asks you, my lord, you Who know the points desirable in such. She does not say that she is perfect. True, She's not too pleasant to the sight or touch. But then--neither are you! Her cheeks are rather fallen in; a mist Glazes her eyes, for all their hungry glare. Her lips do not breathe balmy when they're kissed. And yet she's not more loathsome than, I swear, Your grandmother at whist. My lord, she will admit, and need not frame Excuses for herself, that she's not chaste. First a young lover had her; then she came From one man's to another's arms, with haste. Your mother did the same. Moreover, since she's married, once or twice She's sold herself for certain things at night, To sell one's body for the highest price Of social ease and power, all girls think right. Your sister did it thrice. What, you'll not buy? You'll curse at her instead?-- Her children are alone, at home, quite near. These winter streets, so gay at nights, 'tis said, Have 'ticed the wanton out. _She could not hear_ _Her children cry for bread_! TO THE GIRLS OF THE UNIONS. Girls, we love you, and love Asks you to give again That which draws it above, Beautiful, without stain. Give us weariless faith In our Cause pure, passionate, Dearer than life and death, Dear as the love that's it! Give to the man who turns Traitrous hands or forlorn Back from the plough that burns, Give him pitiless scorn! Let him know that no wife Would bear him a fearless child To hate and loathe the life Of a leprous father defiled. _Girls_, _we love you_, _and love_ _Asks you to give again_ _That which draws it above_, _Beautiful_, _without stain_! HAGAR. She went along the road, Her baby in her arms. The night and its alarms Made deadlier her load. Her shrunken breasts were dry; She felt the hunger bite. She l
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