“"I die, I die!" the Mother said,
"My children die for lack of Bread."”

The Grey Monk, stanza 1
1810s, Miscellaneous poems and fragments from the Nonesuch edition

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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"My children die for lack of Bread."”