 | 530 pages
...gift of freedom, while so many groan under the iron yoke of slavery ? ' I might have been a wretched slave, To labour in the sun, And wish I were but in my grave, And all my labour done.' But God's providential mercy has ordained it otherwise. Still deeper... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1817 - 120 pages
...are, Where GOD was never known ; And taught to pray a useless pray'r, To blocks of wood and stone. I was not born a little slave, To labour in the sun, And wish I were but in the grave, And all iny labour done ! I was not born without a home, Or in some broken shed ; A gipsy baby, taught to roam,... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1819 - 118 pages
...are, Where GOD was never known ; And taught to pray a useless pray'r, To blocks of wood and stone. I was not born a little slave, To labour in the sun,...wish I were but in the grave, And all my labour done ! I was not born without a home. Or in some broken shed. A gipsy baby, taught to roam, And steal my... | |
 | 1822 - 588 pages
...are, AY here God was never known : -Or faught to pray a useless prayer, To blocks of wood and stone, I 'was not born a little slave, To labour in the sun....wish I were but in the grave, And all my labour done. I v/as not born without a home, Or in some broken shtd : A gipsy-baby, taught to roam, And steal my... | |
 | 1822 - 550 pages
...God was never known ; And taught to pray a useless pray'r To blocks of wood and stone. I was not bom a little slave, To labour in the sun, And wish I were but in the grave, And all my labour done ! I was not born without a home, Or in some broken shed ; A gipsy baby; taught to roam, And steal my... | |
 | 1823 - 880 pages
...recur to my recollection, with some sense, 1 hope, of the gratitude which it ought to inspire. " I was not born a little Slave, To labour in the sun, And wish I were but in my grave, And all my labour clone." Highly as 1 have ever appreciated the privilege of claiming as... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - 1823 - 366 pages
...recur to my recollection, with some sense, I hope, of the gratitude which it ought to inspire. " I was not born a little Slave, To labour in the sun, And wish I were but in my grave, And all my labour done." Highly as I have ever appreciated the privilege of claiming as my... | |
 | 1824 - 444 pages
...Where God was never known, And taught to pray a useless pray'r, . To blocks of wood and stone. ^ " I was not born a little slave, To labour in the sun,...wish I were but in the grave, And all my labour done. " I was not born without a home, Or in some broken shed, A gipsy baby, taught to roam, And steal my... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 440 pages
...recur to my recollection, with some sense, I hope, of the gratitude which it ought to inspire. " I was not born a little slave, " To labour in the sun, " And wish I were but in my grave, " And all my labour done." Highly as I have ever appreciated the privilege of claiming as... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1825 - 608 pages
...they cry. You remember the hymn in which you thank God for being born a happy English child '. " I was not born a little slave, To labour in the sun,...wish I were but in the grave, And all my labour done. " I was not born without a home, Or in some broken shed, A gipsy baby, taught to roam, And steal my... | |
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A CHILD'S HYMN OF PRAISE. I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. I was not born as thousands are, Where GOD was never known ; And taught to pray a useless prayer To... 
