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  Misery,
Is in the hut for the worker there;
What for his eyes to see?—
Children, that dumbly ask for things
He knows not of, nor they know who plead
More than a garment for nakedness,
Or warmth from woe that the winter brings,
Or bread—that, God! is a want indeed!

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