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Wages

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)

Wages

              The wages of work is cash.

              The wages of cash is want more cash.

              The wages of want more cash is vicious competition.

              The wages of vicious competition is — the world we live in.

              The work-cash-want circle is the viciousest circle

              that ever turned men into fiends.

              Earning a wage is a prison occupation

              and a wage-earner is a sort of gaol-bird.

              Earning a salary is a prison overseer’s job,

            a gaoler instead of a gaol-bird.

            Living on your income is strolling grandly outside the prison

            in terror lest you have to go in. And since the work-prison covers

            almost every scrap of the living earth, you stroll up and down

            on a narrow beat, about the same as a prisoner taking his exercise.

            This is called universal freedom.

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Treasures of the Earth

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Treasures Of The Earth

by Cyril Hall

Triumphs Of Enterprise Series

Published by Blackie & Son,Ltd. No Date,Around The Early 1900’s

Illustrated By Thirty-Two Reproductions From Photographs and Maps

This book is an attempt to give some idea of the extraordinary richness and importance of the mineral substances of the earth. It has not been possible to give within so small a space more than a very brief account of the most important of these treasures;and if it is complained that my story ends almost at the beginning,my retort is that I have tried to say enough to bring before my readers some idea of the wonders of geology. Since the days of Robert Dick fossil hunting has ever been a favorite pursuit of boyhood, but if read aright the story of the fossils is of an interest far surpassing that of the trophies themselves. No branches of science have made such stupendous strides in recent years as metallurgy and economic geology,and to none is the world more greatly indebted for its comforts and conveniences. Scarcely less remarkable is the transition from the rough flint tools of the first quarrymen to the elaborate appliances at mine,laboratory,and workshop at the present day.

Contents

The World We Live In

King Coal

Titans of Today

Silver and Some Common Metals

From Mine To Dinner Table

The Oldest Art;Making China and Glass

The Craft of the Quarryman

Light From Darkness;The Wonders of Oil

The Pocket Genie: Gold and Its Romance

Precious Stones

Rarer Treasures of the Earth

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Fear Not, Dear Friend

Fear Not, Dear Friend, But Freely Live Your Days

by Robert Louis Stevenson

FEAR not, dear friend, but freely live your days
Though lesser lives should suffer. Such am I,
A lesser life, that what is his of sky
Gladly would give for you, and what of praise.
Step, without trouble, down the sunlit ways.
We that have touched your raiment, are made whole
From all the selfish cankers of man’s soul,
And we would see you happy, dear, or die.
Therefore be brave, and therefore, dear, be free;
Try all things resolutely, till the best,
Out of all lesser betters, you shall find;
And we, who have learned greatness from you, we,
Your lovers, with a still, contented mind,
See you well anchored in some port of rest.

Requiem For War

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Requiem For War

1893

The Life Of Wilfred Owen

1918    by Arthur Orrmont

Quick Biography:

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) was a British poet and soldier, regarded by many as the leading poet of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works—most of which were published posthumously—include Dulce Et Decorum Est, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility, and Strange Meeting. His preface intended for a book of poems to be published in 1919 contains numerous well-known phrases, especially ‘War, and the pity of War’, and ‘the Poetry is in the pity’.

He is perhaps just as well-known for having been killed in action at the Sambre-Oise Canal just a week before the war ended, causing news of his death to reach home as the town’s church bells declared peace.

1972 Stated First Printing Four Winds Press

Complete in 192 Pages

Hardcover in Dustjacket in The Publishers Reinforced Binding and The Publishers Gold Foil Binding Label Affixed at the Lower Dustjacket Spine

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Quarter Tan Buckram Cloth and Deep Brown Buckram Cloth Boards,,Silvered Lettering at the Spine,,Wilfred Owen Frontis In A Price Clipped Dustjacket with the Publishers Gold Foil Label at the Lower Spine

Wilfred Owen Poems at the Rear Include:

Strange Meeting

The Next War

Spring Offensive

Futility

Dulce Et Decorum Est

The Parable of the Old Man and the Young

Miners

Anthem for Doomed Youth

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Golden Treasury of Poetry and Song

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Golden Treasury of Poetry and Song

A Complete Fireside Cyclopedia Of The Best Verse In The English Language.Over Thirteen Hundred Complete Poems By Nearly Two hundred Noted Authors

Comprising

The Best Poems of the Most Famous Writers for Four Centuries,English and American. Including Poems of Humor,Pathos, Patriotism,Nature,Religion and Sentiment. Arranged Under Appropriate Division,with Author and Subject Index and Explanatory Notes

Compiled And Edited by Henry T. Coates

Profusely Illustrated

With Special Duograph Engravings And Portraits

Published 1905 by W.E.Skull

Large 4to In Highly Decorative Full Olive and Gilt Lettered Cloth Hardcover,,Decorative Pastedowns and Endpages,,Complete Contents

Note.–there are 920 pages in this book,including Illustrations not paged,and 32 pages of Contents and Indexes folioed with Roman numerals.

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