on a fly market I found old linen and lace
stitching and embroidery will be added for the middle of de dancing dolls
"The Song of the Shirt"
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread —
Stitch! stitch! stitch!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
She sang the "Song of the Shirt."