The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… Where high heroic self-denial Sustains her self-inflicted trial. Day lab'rors! what an easy life, To feed ten children and a wife! No--I my juster pity spare To the night lab'rer's keener care; And, pleas'd, to gentler scenes …
Bluestockings | Women | Greece
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