 | Lydia Maria Child - African Americans - 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 - Antislavery movements - 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."... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 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."... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...sung extempore songs, as she spun her cotton. In one of these, Park recognised his own condition. " The winds roared and the rains fell. The poor white...weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to briny him milk, no wife to grind his corn. CHORUS. No mother has he to bring him milk, nor wife to... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Travelers - 1837 - 408 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 white...came and sat under our tree ; he has no mother to briiig him milk, no wife to grind his corn.' Chorus : — ' Let us pity the white man, no mother has... | |
 | Church history - 1837 - 844 pages
...discovered that lie himself was the subject of it. It said, in a strain of affecting simplicity : — '' The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white...man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. lie hns no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn." Chorus, " Let us pif the white man,... | |
 | African Americans - 1837 - 424 pages
...rain's fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat undercut tree He has no mother to hring him milk, no wife to grind his corn. Chorus. Let us pity the white man; no mother has he to hring him. milk, no wife to grind his corn." — Park, vol. 1, p. 193. An English lady, — the... | |
 | African Americans - 1837 - 408 pages
...which they lightened by an extempore song, of which he gives the following as an exact translation. " The winds roared and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat underour tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind bis corn. Chorus. Let из pity... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1837 - 510 pages
...reference to his own situation. The air was sweet and plaintive ; and the words were literally as follows. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and 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... | |
 | Harvey Newcomb - African American public worship - 1837 - 120 pages
...furnished us : ' The winds bowled and ihe rain fell : The poor white man, weary with faligue, Sits under our tree: He has no mother to bring him milk, No woman to grind his corn. CHORDS. ' Pity the poor white man, He has no mother to bring him milk, No... | |
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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. 
