The Hopedale Collection has some 316 hymns-songs; Ballou compiled the largest collection of early social issue hymns and songs, hence important to social history.

No. 243, by Eliza Cook, is one which is echoed to the present time-

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While thousands move with aching head
And sing the ceaseless song,
'We starve, we die, oh give us bread!'
There must be something wrong.
etc.