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's Edinburgh Journal - Page 2521848Full view - About this book
 | 1855 - 430 pages
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor o'erlabored 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 though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. " If I 'm designed... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 482 pages
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! "See yonder poor, o'erlabour'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, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. "If I'm design'd... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 430 pages
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...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.... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1855 - 537 pages
...hour Of light no likeness was bequeathed,— no name." CHAPTER XIX. " See yonder poor o'er-labor'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordy fellow-worm The poor petition spurn." BURNS. WORK failed me about the end of June 1828 ; and,... | |
 | William John Grayson - 1855 - 108 pages
...THE SLAVE. '' PART SECOND. SEE yonder poor o'erlaboured wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who befrs a brother of the Earth To give him leave to toil, And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. BURNS. WHERE Hireling... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1855 - 537 pages
...hour Of light no likeness was bequeathed,— no name." CHAPTER XIX. 44 See yonder poor o'er-labor'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give htm leave to toil ; And see his lordy fellow-worm The poor petition spurn." BURNS. WORK failed me about... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856
...heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! ' See yonder poor, o'erlaboured wight, So abject, mean,...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.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 776 pages
...adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! See yonder poor, o'erlabor'd wigln, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the...him leave to toil: And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless otfspring mourn. If I'm design'd... | |
 | William Howitt - 1856
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. " See yonder poor o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...earth To give him leave to toil . And see his lordly fellow worm The piwr petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn.... | |
 | William Howitt - 1857 - 706 pages
...heaven-erected (ace The smiles of love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. " See yonder poor o'erlaboured wight, So abject, mean...him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wile And helpless offspring mourn. " If I'm designed... | |
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