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" ... ocean, beneath the soil we tread, You've English men and women well housed and clothed and fed Who but for help and guidance to leave our crowded shores Would now be stealing, begging, or lie starving at our doors. Who taught them self-reliance and... "
Punch - Page 69
1853
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Caroline Chisholm: The Emigrant's Friend

Joanna Bogle - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 176 pages
...starving at our doors. Who taught them self-reliance, and stirred them to combine And club their means together, to get across the brine, Instead of strikes,...surely, it was who did it all, It was a second Moses in a bonnet and a shawl.' The poem went on to point out that a public subscription fund had been opened...
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Far Above Rubies: The Women Uncommemorated by the Church of England

Richard Symonds - Religion - 1993 - 316 pages
...guidance to leave our crowded shores Would now be stealing, begging or lie starving at our doors . . . Who led their expeditions and under whose command...surely, it was who did it all, It was a second Moses in bonnet and a shawl.'20 Both poems were reprinted as broadsheets, with her portrait. The boom in...
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The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany

Colin Bingham - Social Science - 2006 - 428 pages
...starving at our doors. Who led the expedition and under whose command Thro' dangers and thro' handicaps sought they the promised land? A second Moses surely, it was who did it all, It was a second Moses in bonnet and in shawl. PUNCH, London (1853) The "Moses in bonnet and shawl" was Caroline Chisholm,...
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