“Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!”

— Thomas Hood

St. 5.
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)

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British writer 1799–1845

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“Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!”