 | Gilbert S. Swing - 1889 - 408 pages
...to her hut, fed him and then sang a sweet, plaintive chorus : "The poor white man, faint and weary, No mother has he to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn." To instill patriotism in one's soul there was that grand martial lyric, by Fitzgrcene Hallcck : " Strike... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 1800 - 662 pages
...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 to bring him milk. No wife to grind his corn." " This story may appear trifling to the reader, but to a person in my situation the circumstance was... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1892 - 362 pages
...: He has no mother to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn." Cihorut : " Let us pity the poor white man : No mother has he to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn." Then they ended a simple song (which, unknown to them, an English duchess set to music in after-days),... | |
 | 1907 - 854 pages
...West African wilds, succoured him and brought him back to life, singing the while, in a low chant: "Let us pity the white man; no mother has he to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn." Sir Walter Scott cherished a saying of an old Irishwoman whom he met on his tour in Ireland, and who... | |
 | Louis Lubovius - 1898 - 208 pages
...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 to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn.' Trifling as 15 these events may appear to the reader, they were to me affecting 16 in the highest degree.... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 596 pages
...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 to bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn." Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader, to a person in my situation the circumstance was... | |
 | 1867 - 574 pages
...came and eat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn. Chorut : Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he to bring him milk, no wife to grind his com." And his triumph even was not complete. Although he stood upon the banks of this river which no... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 pages
...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 to bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn." Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader, to a person in my situation the circumstance was... | |
 | 1908 - 650 pages
...weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn. Let us pity the white man, no mother has he to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn. (b) Xow children, answer your names. Mary Murphy. Present. Timothy O'Sidlivan. Absent. SECTION B. 3.... | |
 | Booker T. Washington - 1909 - 462 pages
...weary, Came and sat under our tree ; He has no mother to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn. Let us pity the white man, No mother has he to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn. This incident has been often quoted. Sometimes it has been referred to as an illustration of the easy... | |
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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. 
