 | 1806 - 330 pages
...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...my age, Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is cast abandon'd on the world's wide stage, And dooni'd in scanty poverty to roam. My tender wife, sweet... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...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 on the world's wide stage, My tender wife—sweet soother of my care! Struck with sad... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...like the lark I sprightly hail'd the morn ; But ah ! oppression forc'd me fiom my cot, My cattle dy'd and blighted was my corn. My daughter, once the comfort...my age, Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is cast abandiSn'd on the world's wide stage, And doom'd in scanty poverty to roam. My tender wife, sweet... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...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 of my age ! Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is cast abandon'd on the world's wide stage, And doom'd in scanty poverty to roam. My tender wife —... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...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...my age, Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is cast abandon'd on the world's wide stage, And doovn'd in scanty poverty to roam. My tender wife, sweet... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...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...my age, Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is cast abandon'd on the world's wide stage, And doorn'd in scanty poverty to roam. My tender wife, sweet... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...like the lark, I sprightly bail'd the morn :: But ah ! Oppression iorc'd me frt>m my cot ; My cattle died, and blighted was my corn. My daughter, once...my age, lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is cast abandon'd on the world's wide stage, And doom'd in scanty poverty to roam. JMy tender wife, sweet... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 pages
...Oppression foreed me from my eot, My eattle dy'd, and blighted was my eorn. My daughter, onee the eomfort of my age, Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is east abandon'd on the world's wide si ago. »%_ ""-• Apd doom'd in seanty poverty to roum. My tender... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...hail'd the moru; But ah ! oppression forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd and blighted was my cor». My daughter, once the comfort of my age, Lurd by a villain from her native home, Is cast abandon'd oo the world's wide stage, And doom'd in scanty poverty to roam. My tender wife, sweet... | |
 | James M'Donald - 1815 - 170 pages
...the lark I sprightly hail'd the morn ; - But ah ! oppression forc'd me from my iiot, My cattle dy'd and blighted was my corn. My daughter, once the comfort of my age, Lur'd by a villian from her native home, Is cast abandon'd on -the world's wide stage, And doom'd in scanty poverty... | |
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Tis heav'n has brought me to the state you see; And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow and of misery. 
