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" I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. "
The Prison System and Its Effects: Wherefrom, Whereto, and Why? - Page 25
by Antony Taylor - 2008 - 241 pages
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde - Law - 1898 - 84 pages
...outcast men, And outcasts always mourn. I KNOW not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong ; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde - History - 1898 - 80 pages
...outcast men, And outcasts always mourn. I KNOW not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong ; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have' made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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The City Jail: A Symposium

Fay Lewis - Jails - 1903 - 112 pages
...waits for Sin Had caught us in its snare. I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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Complete Works, Volume 5

Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 364 pages
...outcast men, And outcasts always mourn. POEMS I KNOW not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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Prisons, Police and Punishment: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Treatment of ...

Edward Carpenter - Crime - 1905 - 153 pages
...147 GA Court of Criminal Appeal . . .151 / know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong ; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 33

English periodicals - 1905 - 618 pages
...morality a condition of the mind. • I know not whether Law.s be right. Or whether Luwa be wronic ; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall...that each day is like a year, A year whose days are lung. But this I know, that every Lixw That Men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's...
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The Poems of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2

Oscar Wilde - Authors, Irish - 1906 - 176 pages
...,i..'v f I KNOW not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong', All that we know who lie in jail > Is that the wall is strong ; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. / But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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The Poems of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde - Vellum printed books - 1908 - 366 pages
...outcast men, And outcasts always mourn. I KNOW not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong ; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde - Prisons - 1908 - 212 pages
...outcast men, And outcasts always mourn. V. I KNOW not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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Poems, with an introduction by Richard Le Gallienne

Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 378 pages
...For his mourners will be outcast men, V. I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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