For men must work, and women must weep,
And there's little to earn, and many to keep,
Though the harbor bar be moaning.


The Three Fishers (1851), st. 1.

The Three Fishers by Charles Kingsley. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895[bartleby.com]

Charles Kingsley Quotes

For men must work, and women must weep, And there's little to earn, and many to keep, Though the harbor bar be moaning.

For men must work, and women must weep, And there's little to earn, and many to keep, Though the harbor bar be moaning.

For men must work, and women must weep, And there's little to earn, and many to keep, Though the harbor bar be moaning.

For men must work, and women must weep, And there's little to earn, and many to keep, Though the harbor bar be moaning.