 | 1806 - 360 pages
...the ftate you fee; • And your condition may be foon, like mine, The child of Sorrow, and of Mifery. A little farm was my paternal lot, Then, like the lark, I fprightly hail'd the morn 5But ah! oppreffion forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My daughter, once... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...little farm was my paternal lot, ; Then like the lark I sprightly hail'd the morn, But, ah! oppression forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd and blighted was my corn. My daughter—once the comfort of my age! Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is cast ahaudon'd... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...was my paternal lot, There, like the lark, I sprightly hail'd the morn; But, ah ! Oppression fore'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My daughter, once the comfort of my age, Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is cast abandon'd... | |
 | Young gentleman - 1807 - 314 pages
...ftate you fee ; And your condition may he foon like mine, The Child of Sorrow and of Mifery. A littla farm was my paternal lot, Then, like the lark, I fprightly hail'd the morn ; But, ah ! Oppreftlon forc' d me from my cot ; My cattle died, and hlighted was my corn. My daughter, once (he... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...to the state you see ; And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of Sorrow and of Misery. A little farm was my paternal lot, Then like the lark I sprightly hail'd the morn ; But ah ! oppression forc'd me fiom my cot, My cattle dy'd and blighted... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...state you see ; And your condition may be soon like mine — The child of sorrow — and of misery. A little farm was my paternal lot ; Then, like the lark, I sprightly hail'd the morn ; But ah ! oppression forc'd me from my cot, My daughter — once the comfort... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...to the state you see ; And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow and of misery . A little farm was my paternal lot; Then like the lark I sprightly hail'd the morn ; But ah ! Oppression forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1811 - 264 pages
...the ftate you fee ; And your condition may be foon like mine, The child of forrow, and of mifery. 8. A little farm was my paternal lot, Then like the lark I fprightly haW'd the morn.-, But ah I opprefiion forc'd me from my cot., My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my conn..... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 pages
...to the state you see ; And your eondition may be soon like mine, The ehild of sorrow and of misery. A little farm was my paternal lot ; Then like the lark I sprightly hail'd the mom ; But ah ! Oppression foreed me from my eot, My eattle dy'd, and blighted... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 262 pages
...of mifery. \ little farm was my paternal lot ; Then like the lark I iprightly hail'd the morr. Hut ah ! oppreffion forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. y iiy daughter, once tthe^mfort of my age, ' Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is cart abandon'd... | |
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Oppression forced me from my cot, My cattle died, and blighted was my corn. 
