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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OUR COMING COUNTRYMEN. England's poor who wanderers be On her highway o'er the sea I Trodden long in England's dust? Out at last from England thrust! Children of the former brave, Who, on battle-field and wave, Fought for England in the time, Ere her poverty was crime. Ye, whose labour and whose skill, And whose scorn of every ill, Save the woe ordain'd by state, Made her greatest of the great!? Whose intelligence and power, (Though ye be old England's poor, ) Best support her mighty name Of imperishable fame. Ye who come?when statesmen say That is left the only way To appease lean Hunger's cries? Out to England's colonies. Know ye what fair masters wait? Master both and magistrate? Ye to give your sweat for bread, When Australia's shores ye tread. Know ye, gentlemen are they, Who in open daylight say, England's convicts they prefer To you pauper-scum from her!? Convicts, for they cheaper are, And more governable far; Convicts, with no idle child To be ration'd in the wild!? A few years ago, during the protracted agitation for the abolition of transportation, and when these lines were written, the sentiments expressed in this and the following verse might frequently he heard from the lips of Magistrates of the Territory, in almost the self-same language as is here used. In the wild, where go ye must, And to these men's mercies trust; And, arise what quarrels may, Their adjudgment still obey !? Where revenge and lust ne'er sleep, Let wild nature smile or weep, Unabash'd as unforgiven, When the sun looks down from Heaven! Where all British law is dead, As our senators have said, And the honest pay a price For the sufferance of vice. Ample room for life is there And it is a region fair, ? Ample room, but not for man In the heaven-a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217238618
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 40
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217238610
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 73 gr


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