 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, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn.  Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Seite 22von Robert Burns - 1800Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 440 Seiten
...inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! See yonder poor, o'erlaboured 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 - 1864 - 380 Seiten
...inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor, o'erlaboured 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 Seiten
...inhumanity to man, Makes countless thousands mourn ! 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 tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring... | |
 | 1864 - 974 Seiten
...is an unmitigated vice. There cannot even be a veritably enforced idleness in that class which — " Begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil." Idleness is criminality, because man is made for exertion : enforced idleness is, if possible, worse... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 Seiten
...Man's inhumanity to man Makes 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1898 - 104 Seiten
...mind how this sentiment might be brought forward, the elegy, Man was Made to Mourn, was composed." Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil; 60 And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, tho' a weeping wife And helpless... | |
 | 1899 - 848 Seiten
...It is the poet and not the economist who feels this. See yonder poor, o'er labored 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... | |
 | 1899 - 328 Seiten
...inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! 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, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - 1899 - 222 Seiten
...eyes glowing with indignation as we read the lines : 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, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 338 Seiten
...inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! 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, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring... | |
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