Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-Loom Weaver By William Thom. Edited, with a Biographical Sketch, by W. Skinner |
 |
 | Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-Loom Weaver |  |
THE HOMES OF MISERY.
While we laugh and sing in this happy ring,
With a bright and brotherly glee,
May we never forget that the sun may set
On the homes of misery.
With a bright and brotherly glee,
May we never forget that the sun may set
On the homes of misery.
93
Chorus
—Then aye as we sing may we closer cling
In our bright and brotherly glee;
But never forget that the sun hath set
On the homes of misery.
—Then aye as we sing may we closer cling
In our bright and brotherly glee;
But never forget that the sun hath set
On the homes of misery.
For oh, it may be that the chill night's wind
Sweeps round some fireless hearth,
Freezing the heart of the homeless ones,
With never a friend on earth.
Then aye as we sing, &c.
Sweeps round some fireless hearth,
Freezing the heart of the homeless ones,
With never a friend on earth.
Then aye as we sing, &c.
Man was not made for this world alone,—
The world was lent to man;
'Tis a debt we own to heaven, you know;
Then pay it as well as you can.
Then aye as we sing, &c.
The world was lent to man;
'Tis a debt we own to heaven, you know;
Then pay it as well as you can.
Then aye as we sing, &c.
Now winter rides mad in his carriage of snow,
With his rain and pelting hail:
May it never be said that hunger and woe
Held a bidding in bonnie Dean Vale.
Then aye as we sing, &c.
With his rain and pelting hail:
May it never be said that hunger and woe
Held a bidding in bonnie Dean Vale.
Then aye as we sing, &c.
| Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-Loom Weaver | |