 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1845 - 488 Seiten
...to his own situation. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words were literally as follows : " The winds roared and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind him corn. Let us pity the... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 Seiten
...the night, relieving the labour by an extempore song, which deeply affected the weary traveller. " The winds roared and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn. Chorus : Let us... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1845 - 312 Seiten
...seeing a white man. As they worked, they sung an extempore song, of which the traveller was the subject. The winds roared, and the rains fell ; The poor white man, faint and weary, Came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn. CHOHUS. Let us pity... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 296 Seiten
...of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these: — " The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mothei to bring him milk, no wife to grind him corn. Let us pity the... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Israel Alger (Jun.) - 1846 - 180 Seiten
...of chorus. The ai.- was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. 13. " The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn. Chorus. Let us... | |
 | 1856 - 1178 Seiten
...their villag( the interior of the country, in a state of destitution, friendless and forlorn: — i " The winds roared, and the rains fell : The poor white man, faint and weary, came «n( under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to f his corn. Let us pity the white... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1848 - 908 Seiten
...discovered that he himself was the subject of it. It said, in a strain of affecting simplicity : — " The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn." Chorus. " Let us... | |
 | 1849 - 240 Seiten
...discovered that he himself was the subject of it. It said, in a strain of affecting simplicity: — "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn." Chorus, " Let us... | |
 | 1849 - 396 Seiten
...chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally transited, were these : — 48 ' The winds roared, and the rains fell ; The poor white man, faint and weary, Came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn. CHORUS. Let us pity... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 Seiten
...chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these :—" The wiuds roared and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn. Chorus.—Let us... | |
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The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. Chorus. Let us pity the white man; no mother has he, &c. 
