Joseph Skipsey - 'Get Up!'

2014-10-29 0

'GET UP!' the caller calls, 'Get up!'
And in the dead of night,
To win the bairns their bite and sup,
I rise a weary wight.

My flannel dudden donn'd, thrice o'er
My birds are kiss'd, and then
I with a whistle shut the door
I may not ope again.

Joseph Skipsey

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