<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541357" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>21 - Victorian Poverty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A period of extreme poverty of the lower working classes <br>As they worked to the death the rich sat politely on their arses <br>London’s poor tried to scrape a living doing jobs the devil created<br>As the rich sat at their windows laughing at the pitiful souls they hated</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poor would have sooner died than enter the poor houses control <br>As it was not fit to harbor a single living human soul <br>Small boys were used to clean narrow sooted chimneys<br>While in the coal mines children worked on their hands and knees</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although this golden age pioneered many useful inventions <br>Children privileged to go to school were whipped instead of detentions<br>And as the poor worked for a life at every waking hour<br>The rich covered their stench with perfume and wild flowers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poor had nothing and hardly anything to eat<br>While the rich enjoyed tea and honey and sherbet lemon sweets<br>In Victorian London the poor just lived and died<br>The rich never really noticed the rich never really cried</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A period of extreme poverty of the lower working classes <br>As they worked to the death the rich sat politely on their asses</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Nicola+Burkett">Nicola Burkett</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541357" data-title="21 - Victorian Poverty de Nicola Burkett" data-description="A period of extreme poverty of the lower working classes As they worked to the death the rich sat politely on their arses London’s poor tried to scrape a living doing jobs the devil created As the rich sat at their windows laughing at the piti..."></div> </div> </div>

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