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
| Kenneth C. Wenzer - 1997 - 490 pages
...Ogilvie: Biographical Notes with Side Issues, by the Editor DG MacDonald 1 See yonder poor, o'erlabor'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...him leave to toil; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. Introduction Robert... | |
| Gregory Claeys - 2005 - 464 pages
...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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