| Ebenezer Elliott - 1833 - 290 pages
...Will yet stay with me, And poor little Jane Look sadly like thee. SONG. C.' TUNE—" Robin Adair." CHILD, is thy father dead ? Father is gone! Why did they tax his bread ? God's will be done ! Mother has sold her bed ; Better to die than wed ! Where shall she lay her head ? Home we have none... | |
| Ebenezer Elliott - 1833 - 286 pages
...thy pain Will yet stay with me, And poor little Jane Look sadly like thee. SONG. TUNE_" Robin Adair." CHILD, is thy father dead ? Father is gone ! Why did they tax his bread ? God's will be done I Mother has sold her bed ; Better to die than wed ! Where shall she lay her head ? Home we have none... | |
| Ebenezer Elliott - 1834 - 300 pages
...pain Will yet stay with me, And poor little Jane _ Look sadly like thee. SON G. TUNE—" Robin Adair." CHILD, is thy father dead ? Father is gone ! Why did they tax his bread ? God's will be done \ Mother has sold her bed ; Better to die than wed ! Where shall she lay her head ? Home we have none... | |
| Ebenezer Elliott - 1840 - 194 pages
...pain Will yet stay with me, And poor little Jane Look sadly like thee. TUNE SONG. ." Pobin Adair." Child, is thy father dead ? Father is gone ! Why did they tax his bread ? God's will be done ! Mother has sold her bed ; Better to die than wed ! Where shall she lay her head ? Home we have none... | |
| 1850 - 534 pages
...original, and all powerful— although the last we give merely as . & grotesque curiosity : — SONG. Child, is thy father dead ? Father is gone ! Why did they tax his bread ? God's will be done ! Mother has sold her bed ; Better to die than wed ! Where Khali six; lay her head ? Home we nave none... | |
| George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 328 pages
...the son of thy pride Shall yet stay with thee, And poor little Jane, Look sadly like thee." SONG. " CHILD, is thy father dead ? Father is gone ! Why did they tax his bread ? God's will be done ! Mother has sold her bed ; Better to die than wed ! Where shall she lay her head ? Home we have none... | |
| Alexander Somerville - 1853 - 612 pages
...the number and reputation of his poems. Here are two, out of many, the offspring of that time : SONG. Child, is thy father dead ! Father is gone ! Why did they tax his bread { God's will be done ! Mother has sold her bed ; Better to die than wed ! Where shall she lay her head ? Home we have none... | |
| Alexander Somerville - 1853 - 628 pages
...reputation of his poems. Here are two, out of many, the offspring of that time : SONG. Child, is thj father dead ! Father is gone ! Why did they tax his bread { God's will be done ! Mother has sold her bed ; Better to die than wed ! Where shall she lay her head ? Home we have none... | |
| 1858 - 344 pages
...1849, at Argilt Hill, near Barnsley. We quote one of his rhymes : — " Child, i» thy father deadf Father is gone ! Why did they tax his bread? God's will be done ! Mother has sold her bed ; Better to die than wed ! Where shall she lay her head ? Home we hare none... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 pages
...original, and all powerful — although the last we give merely as a grotesque curiosity: — SONG. Child, is thy father dead ? Father is gone! Why did they tax his bread ? God's will be done ! Mother has sold her bed ; Better to die than wed ! Where shall she lay her head ? Home we have none... | |
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