 | Thomas Arnold - 1885 - 670 pàgines
...Father is gone I Why did they tax his bread J God's will be done ! Mother has sold her bed ; Hotter to die than wed ; Where shall she lay her head ? Home we have uone. Elliott is at his best when he talks of his native Hallamshiro, and its dales and streams. When... | |
 | Henry Fitz Randolph - 1887 - 332 pàgines
...so fine in such a nest of green. EBENEZER ELLIOTT. FROM 'CORN-LAW RHYMES.' 1 * SONG. CHILD, is thy father dead ? Father is gone! Why did they tax his...shall she lay her head ? Home we have none ! Father clammed thrice a week — God's will be done! Long for work did he seek, Work he found none. Tears... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1888 - 666 pàgines
...! ' appeared in 1831. The animus inspiring them may be gathered from Rhyme No. 2 :— Child, is thy father dead ? Father is gone ! Why did they tax his...Where shall she lay her head ? Home we have none. Elliott is at his best when he talks of his native Hallamshire, and its dales and streams. When he... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1890 - 518 pàgines
..."Child, is thy father dead?" so ran the touching question of the poet of the poor — " Child, is thy father dead ? — Father is gone : Why did they tax his bread? — God's will be done. — 1 Par!, Papers, 1841, vol. xp 397. * Hansard, vol. xxxviii. p. 1794 ; cf. Disraeli's account of... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1892 - 322 pàgines
...be a Song, that should be sung, if one cares to sing it, to the tune of Robin Adair : Child, is thy father dead ? Father is gone ! Why did they tax his...shall she lay her head ? Home we have none ! Father clammed thrice a week. God's will be done ! Long for work did he seek, Work he found none. Tears on... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pàgines
...And, like the lives of human millions, blend Disparted waves in one immensity! SONG. Child, is thy father dead? Father is gone ! Why did they tax his...shall she lay her head ? Home we have none ! Father clammed1 thrice a weekGod's will be done ! Long for work did he seek, Work he found none. Tears on... | |
 | George Armitage-Smith - 1898 - 252 pàgines
...of the repeated distress. A brief specimen must suffice to illustrate their style: " Child, is thy father dead? Father is gone! Why did they tax his...Where shall she lay her head? Home we have none." Meanwhile the distress continued, and all classes anxiously awaited the action of the new Parliament.... | |
 | James Richard Joy - 1902 - 302 pàgines
...Elliott, "The Corn-Law Rhymer," contributed to the agitation such "Songs " as this.] Child, is thy father dead? Father is gone! Why did they tax his...shall she lay her head? Home we have none ! Father clammed thrice a week — God's will be done! Long for work did he seek, Work he found none; Tears... | |
 | Thomas Archen, Alfred Thomas Story - 1903 - 416 pàgines
...corn-law poems : — "Child, is thy father dead» Father is gone ! H'/iv did t/ie;/ ttijr hit bread I God's will be done ! Mother has sold her bed ; Better to die than wed ! Where shall sho lay her head? Home we have none ! "Father clamni'd tlirite a iceei — God's will be done ! Long... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 878 pàgines
...waves in one immensity 1 SONG. Child, is thy father dead? Father is gone! Why did they tax his bread i God's will be done ! Mother has sold her bed : Better...shall she lay her head? Home we have none ! Father clammed1 thrice a weekGod's will be done ! Long for work did he seek, Work he found none. ' Fasted... | |
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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 ! Father clammed1 thrice a week — God's will be done ! Long... 
