 | Blair Niles - 1926 - 360 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 . . ." And so, Vastey argued, there had been kindness and hospitality in old Africa, even though it... | |
 | Blair Niles - 1926 - 364 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 . . ." And so, Vastey argued, there had been kindness and hospitality in old Africa, even though it... | |
 | Edward Wilmot Blyden - 1993 - 460 pages
...out treo. Ho has no mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn, Cuonus. Let us pity tlto white man ; No mother has he to bring him milk ; No wife to grind his corn. Trifling as this recital may appear to tho reader, adds tho author, to a person in my situation the... | |
 | Eileen Southern - 1997 - 710 pages
...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 to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn. The song of the spinners represents a typical African poetic form — the alternation of stanza and chorus,... | |
 | Bob Darden - 2004 - 456 pages
...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 to bring him milk No wife to grind his corn-' Other travelers later discovered that some of their misadventures were made into less flattering songs.... | |
 | Abigail Mott - 1839 - 420 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.** * These simple and affecting sentiments, have been very bountifully versified. 1. The loud wind roar"d,... | |
 | Poetry - 1870 - 264 pages
...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 to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn.' " Trifling as these events may appear to the reader, they were to me affecting in the highest degree.... | |
 | 1907 - 854 pages
...West African wilds, succoured him and brought him bock 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... | |
 | 1903 - 726 pages
...songs of Zion cannot fail to carry a message of God's love to their hearts. "Come, let us pity the poor white man. No mother has he to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn." — Mungo Park's Travels. These lines came to memory on seeing John Silver, nineteen years of age,... | |
 | Australia. Parliament - 1906 - 1420 pages
...under our tree ; no mother had he to bring him milk, no wife to grind him corn ; let us pity the poor white man, no mother has he to bring him milk, no wife to grind him corn." That is the song, rendered into English, which Park heard, and he tells us that it greatly... | |
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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. 
