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" 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, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. "
Thirty-hour Work Week: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on ... - Page 509
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1933 - 641 pages
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Proceedings

Natal (South Africa). Commission to Inquire into the Past and Present State of the Kafirs - Indigenous peoples - 1852 - 506 pages
...gain the smallest pittance which existence requires he must become a VILLAIN, or the degraded vassal " Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil." " No effort certainly should be spared by government to educate the masses; but their first great want...
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A cyclopædia of sacred poetical quotations, ed. by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight; So abject, mean,...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. Yet...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 2; Volume 33

United States - 1854 - 400 pages
...meat."—"RENT EOLL." " We want public souls. We wait* them."—Dn. SOUTH. " See yonder poor, o'erlabor'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...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."...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...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....
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: Including Several Pieces Not Inserted in ...

Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. VIII. See yonder poor, o'erlaborM wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...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. If...
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Contributions to Literature, Historical, Antiquarian, and Metrical

Mark Antony Lower - 1854 - 308 pages
...To what bad passions does he pander in such effusions as this : — " See yonder poor o'erlaboured wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...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...
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...love adorn, 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...earth, To give him leave to toil : And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless onspring mourn....
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The Genius, and Character of Burns

John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man, Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor, o'er-laborM wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see hjs lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring...
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The Genius, and Character of Burns

John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man, Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor, o'er-laborM wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil; And see hjs lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring...
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An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education

Hugh Miller - Education - 1854 - 600 pages
...bequeathed,— no name." CHAPTEK XIX. "See yonder poor o'er-labor'd wight, So abject, mean, and Tile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordy fellow-worn The poor petition spurn." BURNS. WORK failed me about the end of June 1828 ; and,...
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