Autobiography, Poems, and SongsW. Love, 1867 - 232 pages |
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Page 96 - What care some gentry if they're weel though a' the puir wad dee? It is the puir man's hard-won cash that fills the rich man's purse; I'm sure his gowden coffers they are het wi mony a curse. Were it no for the workin man what wad the rich man be? What care some gentry if they're weel though a
Page 91 - ... Girl's Farewell" concludes: Farewell to all the works around, The flaxmill, foundry, copperage too; The old forge, with its blazing mound, And Tennant's stalk, farewell to you. Your gen'rous masters were so kind, Theirs was the gift that did excel; Their name around my heart is twined: So Gailbraith's bonnie mill, farewell! Farewell, my honour'd masters two, Your mill no more I may traverse; I breathe you both a fond adieu; Long may you live lords of commerce. Farewell unto my native land, Land...
Page 1 - ... mothers spoke so much about. In 1859 I left Belfast and went to Manchester, where I worked three months, and then returned again to my native land, much improved in body and mind. New scenes and systems made a great change in my natures. I became cheerful, and sought the society of mirthmakers, so that few would have taken me for the former moving monument of melancholy. I had again resumed work at Galbraith's factory, and all went on well. 'My bonnie Mary Auchinvole' was growing prettier every...
Page 91 - The Exile of Poland', and writes with irresistible affection for the material life of the factory, as in 'An Address to Napier's Dockyard' and 'Kennedy's Dear Mill'. 'The Factory Girl's Farewell' concludes: Farewell to all the works around, The flaxmill, foundry, copperage too; The old forge, with its blazing mound, And Tennant's stalk, farewell to you. Your gen'rous masters were so kind, Theirs was the gift that did excel; Their name around my heart is twined: So Gailbraith's bonnie mill, farewell!...