 | Lindley Murray - 1831 - 180 pages
...came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn. Chants. Let us pity the white man : No mother has he to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn." [These simple and pathetick sentiments, have been very beautifully versified and expanded, by the Dutch/ess... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1857 - 526 pages
...the affecting episode in the African history of Mungo Park, when the compassionate negress sung — " No mother has he to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn." We believe that Querns are found in this country, dating to many widely-separated epochs — Celtic,... | |
 | 1837 - 684 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." Park, vol. 1. p. 193. An English lady, — the Dutchess of Devonshire — has very well preserved the... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1835 - 322 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...were all he had to offer to signify his gratitude. VOL. i. 18 " In all my wanderings and wretchedness," says this enlightened traveller, " I found women... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1835 - 318 pages
...He has no mother to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn. CHORUS. Let us pity the white man j No mother has he to bring him milk, No wife to grind...were all he had to offer to signify his gratitude. } VOL. i. 18 " In all my wanderings and wretchedness," sayi this enlightened traveller, " I found women... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1835 - 352 pages
...weary, Came and sat under a tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, No wife to grind him oorn. CHORUS. Let us pity the white man, No mother has he to bring him milk, No wife to grind him corn." I never could read these lines without feeling the lump in the throat that troubles a man's... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 290 pages
...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.... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 716 pages
...and sat under our tree. — He has no mother to bring him milk , No wife to grind his corn. CHORDS. " 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, the circumstance was highly affecting to a person in my situation.... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 244 pages
...and sat under our tree. — He has no mother to bring him milk ; No wife to grind his corn. CHORDS. " 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, the circumstance was highly affecting to a person in my situation.... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1837 - 510 pages
...weary, came and eat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind him corn. Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he to bring him milk ; no wife to grind him corn." This agrees with the testimony of the traveller Ledyard, who expressly says ; " I have always... | |
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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. 
