 | T. W. M. - 1876 - 264 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...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,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1876 - 878 pages
...indignantly asked, in the presence of oppression, "If I'm design'd yon lordling'a slave, By Nature's laws designed ; Why was an independent wish E'er planted...in my mind? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or acorn ? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn ?" ' Nations, like men, have... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 540 pages
...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 in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty, or scorn ? Or why has Man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn ? Yet, let not this too much,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1876 - 626 pages
...And helpless offspring mourn. "If Pin 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 power To make his fellow mourn ? " Yet, let not this too much,... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...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 in 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,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...fellow-worm The ppor 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 - 1877 - 116 pages
...helpless oifspring mourn. 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 pow'r To make his fellow mourn ? Yet, let not thjs too much,... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1878 - 272 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 fellows mourn ? How these feelings raged in me as I was first in Edinburgh... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - Elocution - 1878 - 254 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...my mind. If not. why am I subject to His cruelty, or scorn? Or why has man the will, and flo-wcr To make his fellow mourn? INDIGNATION. Mocre. To think... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 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,... | |
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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. 
