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Carpenter in his cottage at Millthorpe, Derbyshire; picture in the Carpenter collection at Sheffield City Libraries
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1844 born Brighton; educated Brighton college and later Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he became Fellow and Lecturer 1874 relinquished holy orders to lecture for the University Extension movement in northern towns 1883 Settled on farm near Sheffield; literary work, market garden, sandal making, Socialist movement, street corner propaganda. Friend of Wait Whitman, Havelock Ellis, Bernard Shaw, D. H. Lawrence and others. Writings: Towards Democracy, Civilisation - Its Cause and Cure, The Intermediate Sex 1929 died Guildford, Surrey
Carpenter's Song England, arise, the long, long night is over, Faint in the east behold the dawn appear; Out of your evil dream of toil and sorrow Arise, 0 England, for the day is here! From your fields and hills, Hark! the answer swells - Arise, 0 England, for the day is here! Over your face a web of lies is woven; Laws that are falsehood pin you to the ground; Labour is mocked, its just reward is stolen; On its bent back sits idleness encrowned How long while you sleep Your harvest shall it reap? Arise, 0 England, for the day is here! five
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