What does the line ' spectacles of steel
With mended glass , like bottle bits on stone ' means ?

The slum children spend their life in foggyslums.so, it signifies that the slum children cannot even  afford to buy a spectacle because of  their poverty stricken life.
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"Spectacles of steel with mended glasses" signify the poverty-stricken life of these children as they don't have enough money to buy spectacles of their own and survive on the spectacles donated by the rich. It also tells us that they have a harsh outlook of life as they've never felt happy and thus don't know what happiness is.

Their life is like "bottle bits on stone"- Shattered and Broken like bits of a broken bottle. They are deprived of even the basic amenities of life.
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