 | African American songs - 1845 - 234 pages
...— There no brother's voice shall greet them — There no father's welcome meet them.— Gone, fc. Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From the tree whose shadow lay On their childhood's place of play — From the cool spring where they drank... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them. Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank...hills and waters, — Woe is me my stolen daughters! Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. Oh, when weary, sad, and slow, From... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...the rice- swamp dank and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters,— Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! Gone, gone — sold and gone. To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From the tree whose shadow lay On their childhood's place of play — From the cool spring where they drank-^Rock,... | |
 | Gems - 1850 - 204 pages
...These, and a thousand griefs minute as these, Corrode our comfort and destroy our ease. HANNAH MORE. THE MORAL WARFARE. WHEN Freedom, on her natal day,...war-rocked cradle lay, An iron race around her stood, Baptised her infant brow in blood ; And through the storm which round her swept, Their constant ward... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1850 - 408 pages
...the rice-swamp dank and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters — Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From the tree whose shadow lay On their childhood's place of play — From the cool spring where they drank... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Enslaved persons - 1853 - 276 pages
...strews Poison with the falling dews, Where the sickly sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air, — Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank...hills and waters, — Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. There no mother's eye is near them,... | |
 | Slavery - 1853 - 380 pages
...drank, Rock, and hill, and rivulet bank, From the solemn house of prayer, And the holy counsels there. Gone, gone, sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From Virginia's bills and waters, Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! Gone, gone, sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 384 pages
...To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters, Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! Gone, gone, sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, From the tree whose shadow lay On their childhood's place of play, From the cool spring where they drank,... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 534 pages
...— There no brother's voice shall greet them, There no father's welcome meet them. Gone, gone, &c. Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. From the tree whose shadow lay On their childhood's place of play ; From the cool spring where they drank... | |
 | Horace Bushnell - Bible - 1854 - 40 pages
...institutions we leave to them are beset by any conspiracy or betrayed and sold by ambitious and faithless men. When Freedom, on her natal day, Within her war-rocked...her stood, •% Baptized her infant brow in blood, J And through the storm that round her swept Their constant ward and watching kept. So be it ours,... | |
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Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. From Virginia's hills and waters ; Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. 
