 | Lydia Maria Child - 1835 - 322 pages
...seeing a white man. As they worked, they sung an extempore song, of which the traveller was the subject. The winds roared, and the rains fell ; The poor white...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 air... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1835 - 318 pages
...seeing a white man. As they worked, they sung an extempore song, of which the traveller was the subject. The winds roared, and the rains fell ; The poor white...man, faint and weary, Came and sat under our tree. j He has no mother to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn. CHORUS. Let us pity the white man... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1835 - 352 pages
...the moment : "the air was sweet and plaintive," and the words literally translated were these : — " The winds roared and the rains fell, — The poor white man, faint and 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... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...joining in a chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these : ' The winds roared, and the rains fell The poor white...bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn.' Chorus — ' Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he !' &c. &c. Trifling as this recital may appear to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 290 pages
...sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive ; and the words, literally translated, were these : ' The winds roared, and the rains fell. — The poor...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... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1836 - 224 pages
...The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words literally translated, were these : "The winds roar'd, and the rains fell; The poor white man, faint and...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 reader... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1836 - 824 pages
...the words, literally translated, were as follow : — " Tiie winds roared, and the rains fell; I in- poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under...bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn. CHORUS. Let us pit; the white man, no mot-ier lias . " ic. This circumstance was, to Mr. Par' , affecting in... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1836 - 260 pages
...translated, were these : " The winds roar'd, and the nuns fell ; The poor white man, faint and weary, Cuino and sat under our tree. — He has no mother to bring him milk ; No wife to grind his com. CHORUS. " Let us pity the white man ; No mother has he to bring him milk, No wife to grind his... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 244 pages
...The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words literally translated, were these : " The winds roar'd, and the rains fell ; The poor white man, faint and...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."... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 716 pages
...The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words literally translated, were these : " The winds roar'd, and the rains fell ; The poor white man, faint and...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."... | |
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The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "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. 
