 | Julius Rubens Ames - Enslaved persons - 1839 - 160 pages
...BURNS. I'm designed yon lordling's slave, By Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish Ere planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn 1 Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn ? Then let us pray that come... | |
 | Patrick MacDonell - 1843 - 88 pages
...of society had doomed him to surfer. If I'm designed yon lordling's slave* By Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind...I subject to His cruelty and scorn, Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn 1 Sentiments like these were engendered in the breast of... | |
 | Slavery - 1843 - 404 pages
...BURNS. I'm designed yon lordling's slave, By Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish Ere planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His eruelty or seorn ? Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn I Then lot us pray that... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...AnJ helpless offspring mourn. IX. 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? If not, why am I suhject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn ? X. Yet... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. " If I 'm designed yon lordling's slave, — By Nature's law...my mind ? 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,... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 pages
...And helpless offspring mourn. • If I 'm desicn'd yon lordling's slave — By Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn \ Or why has man the will and pow'i To make his fellow mourn Î ' Yet let not this too much,... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...lordling's slave, By nature's law designed, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mindl " If not, why am I subject to His cruelty and scorn ? Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn 1 " Yet let not this too much, my son, Disturb thy youthful... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1849 - 906 pages
...And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave — By Nature's laws dcsign'u — Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind...I subject to His cruelty and scorn, Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow moum ?" " I had an old grand-uncle," says the poet, in one of... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. " If I'm designed yon lordling's slave — By Nature's...subject to His cruelty and 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...helpless offspring mourn. IX. " 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 ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn .' Or why has man the will and powei To make his fellow mourn ; X. " Yet let not this too... | |
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See yonder poor o'erlabored 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. 
