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
| Clara Linklater Thomson - 1914 - 82 pages
...adorn — Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor o'er laboured 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. " If I'm designed... | |
| 1932 - 80 pages
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| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1933 - 662 pages
...the worker must sell himself. Burns' protest rings within one's ears. See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd 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, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. But,... | |
| Daniel Evans - 1939 - 440 pages
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| 1939 - 482 pages
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| Robert Burns - 1957 - 364 pages
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