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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat of the long day And wish ’twere done. Not till the hour of light return All we have built do we discern.
With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat of the long day And wish ’twere done. Not till the hour of light return All we have built do we discern.
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Matthew Arnold
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 555; printed byline: Matthew Arnold; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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