 | James Thomson - 1842 - 440 pages
...cold. And the plain oxf That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended? he, whose toil, Patient, and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest; shall he hleed., And straggling groan heneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds?... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...cold ! And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended ? he, whose I saw, what time the labor'd ox In his loose traces from the furrow harvest : shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands Ev'n of the clown he feeds ;... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...cold 1 And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended ? he, whose @& harvest : shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands Ev'n of the clown he feeds ;... | |
 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - English language - 1848 - 300 pages
...in school ot" tribulation The folly of his expectation. — Cowper. Khali the plain ox, whose toij, Patient, and' ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest, shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds ?... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 586 pages
...but with the whole animal creation. The fleecy wanderers of the downs, " the laborer ox," He whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest ; the varied songsters of the woods and groves, the swarming myriads of the atmosphere, are... | |
 | James Thomson, George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1853 - 408 pages
...cold ? And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended ? he, whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest ; shall he bleed, And straggling groan beneath the cruel hands Even of the clown he feeds ?... | |
 | John Smith (of Malton, Eng.) - Vegetarianism - 1856 - 388 pages
...cold ? And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guiltless animal, In what has he offended? He, whose toil — Patient, and ever ready — clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest; shall be bleed, And struggling groan beneath the eruel hands E'en of the clown ho feeds? And... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...cold ? and the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended ? he, whose eir haunches reared, harvest ; shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds ?... | |
 | Bernard Whittingham - Asia - 1856 - 362 pages
...suppose Thomson's lines had once run through my head, and left some half-regrets behind. " He whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest; shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands Even of the clown he feeds!"... | |
 | Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 226 pages
...cold ? And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended ? he, whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest ; shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds ?... | |
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What have ye done; ye peaceful people, what, To merit death ? you, who have given us milk In luscious streams, and lent us your own coat Against the winter's cold? 
