Pansies (Lawrence)/Poor Young Things—

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POOR YOUNG THINGS———
The young to-day are born prisoners
poor things, and they know it.
Born in a universal workhouse,
and they feel it.
 ​Inheriting a sort of confinement,
work, and prisoners' routine
and prisoners' flat, ineffectual pastime.

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