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GET UP by JOSEPH SKIPSEY

First Line: GET UP!' THE CALLER CALLS, 'GET UP'
Last Line: I MAY NOT OPE AGAIN.
Subject(s): LABOR & LABORERS; WORK; WORKERS;

'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.



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