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Chanson des Ouvriers (Workmen’s Song)

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Poem details

Chanson des Ouvriers (Workmen’s Song)

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Chanson des Ouvriers (Workmen’s Song)

Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Translator

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 24:138, 246–247, August 1888.

First line

We whose dim lamp, the dawning day

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

French

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Notes and attribution research

French working song cited in Laura Alexandrine Smith’s Workers’ Song (pp. 238-250). Smith dates the song from about 1847-8 (246). (HR)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8293

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “Chanson des Ouvriers (Workmen’s Song),” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.10beta , University of Victoria, 30th April 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/nineteenthcentury/1888/pom_8293_chanson_des_ouvriers_workmens.html.

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