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Read the following set of poetic lines and answer the question given below.

'And all day, the iron wheels are droning:
And sometimes we could pray'

Who does 'we' refer to?

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The given lines are from the poem "The Cry of the Children" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning that expresses the sorrows of child labor victims. In this context, the "we" refers to the children.

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