 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 tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn.  Poems - Page 196by Robert Burns - 1811Full view - About this book
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...offspring mourn. " If I 'm designed yon lordling's slave, — By Nature's law designed, — THE MARIGOLD. If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn ? ' Yet, let not this too much, my son, Disturb thy youthful breast... | |
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...prattle at my feet ? Dr. Woleot's Peter Pindar. If I 'm design'd yon lordling's slave — By nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? Burns't Poems. Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its List fetters off; and who shall... | |
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...tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave, By Nature's law design'd ; Why was an independent wish E'er planted...has man the will and pow*r To make his fellow mourn? Yet, let not this too much, my son, Disturb thy youthful breast; This partial view of human kind Is... | |
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...myriads whom they oppress?" " If I'm designed yon lordling's slave — By nature's law designed — Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty and scorn? Or why has man (he will and power To make his fellow mourn?" " I would hardly know what... | |
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...wile And helpless offspring mourn. " If I'm designed yon lordllng's slave, By nature's law designed, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ' If not, why am 1 subject to His cruelty and scorn t Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn t "... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1857 - 702 pages
...in the presence of oppression, " If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave. By Nature's laws designed ; Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? If not, why am 1 subject to His cruelty or scorn? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn ?" '... | |
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...though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm designed yon lordling's slaveBy Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind 1 If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and power To make his... | |
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