 And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms, — a garden and a grave. Where then, ah! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flock to pick...  Hansard's Parliamentary Debates - Page 515by Great Britain. Parliament - 1832Full view - About this book
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