Joseph Skipsey

March 17, 1832 - September 3,1903 / Percy, Northumberland

A Golden Lot

IN the coal-pit, or the factory,
I toil by night or day,
And still to the music of labour
I lilt my heart-felt lay;

I lilt my heart-felt lay
And the gloom of the deep, deep
mine,
Or the din of the factory dieth away,
And a Golden Lot is mine.
183 Total read