 See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn.  Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Page 2521848Full view - About this book
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...Money will atone for that degradation which arises from a feeling that our condition is that of - a poor o'er-laboured Wight, So abject, mean, and vile,...Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil;3 Whose interest can it be, that such degradation should exist? The Landholder, and the Capitalist,... | |
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