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To His Wife

Dear wife, we struggle in a time
    Saddened by many a shade,
For warfare in another clime
    Has paralysed my trade;
And 'mong the thousands of our class,
    So meanly clothed and fed,
We've had our share of grief, alas!
    Pining for needful bread.....

Notes

In common with many of the Lancashire dialect poets JCP worked in the cotton trade and during the American Civil War when cotton was scarce he suffered great hardship.

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