• Some tell us ’t is a burnin’ shame
      To make the naygers fight;
    An’ that the thrade of bein’ kilt
      Belongs but to the white:
    But as for me, upon my sowl!
      So liberal are we here,
    I ’ll let Sambo be murthered instead of myself,
      On every day in the year.
        On every day in the year, boys,
          And in every hour of the...

  • O, It is hard to work for God,
      To rise and take his part
    Upon this battle-field of earth,
      And not sometimes lose heart!

    He hides himself so wondrously,
      As though there were no God;
    He is least seen when all the powers
      Of ill are most abroad.

    Or he deserts us at the hour
      The fight is all but lost;
    And...

  • WHilst you, Athenia, with assiduous toil

    Reap the rich fruits of learning's fertile soil;

    Now search whate'er historick truth has shewn,

    And make the...