 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.  The Scots Magazine - Seite 2921787Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 624 Seiten
...countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor, o'erlabor'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... | |
 | Janet Hamilton - 1870 - 456 Seiten
...write for, nay, who spend and are spent for the cause of " Yonder poor o'er-laboured wights. So abject, mean, and vile, Who beg a brother of the earth To give them leave to toil!" Yes, to those large-hearted men who are striving to heal the sores of the beggar... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 Seiten
...countless thousands mourn ! VIII. See yonder poor, o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs loath to leave the helpless maid, When, fast as shaft see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn. Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless oli'spring... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 Seiten
...poverty. ' * It is hard to ' 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 Seiten
...countless thousands mourn ! See, yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean and vile, Whp begs 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 Seiten
...poverty. ' * It is hard to ' 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... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1872 - 438 Seiten
...notice was in his second or third year : and, though often obliged to leave his foster-valley " to beg a brother of the earth to give him leave to toil," as BURNS very pithily puts it, the principal part of his life was spent in the parish of Danby. Thus... | |
 | 1872 - 710 Seiten
...countless thousands mourn ! See yonder poor, o'erlabored wight • So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs eve, and live : And many to her voice gave car, and re see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 Seiten
...countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor, o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean, and vile, AVho 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... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1876 - 626 Seiten
...countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor, o'erlahour'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... | |
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