 | William C. Upton - 1882 - 300 strani
...road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs, And hark to the dirge which the sad driver sings: ' Rattle his bones over the stones, ' He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns.' " THOMAS NOBL. Cracked Henry comes regularly every week with a little bag of potatoes to Johnny, and... | |
 | Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 strani
...Rattle his bones over the stones, He's only a pauper whom nobody owns ! " Oh, where are the mourners ? Alas ! there are none, He has left not a gap in the...of child, woman, or man — To the grave with his carcase as fast as you can. " Rattle his bones over the stones, He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - 544 strani
...Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper who nobody owns. Oh, where are the mourners? Alas ! there are none ; He has left not a gap in the...of child, woman or man : — To the grave with his carcase as fast as you can. Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper who nobody owns.... | |
 | Lillie Peck - 1883 - 580 strani
...awaiting both of us. Here we are, victims to the same curse. God only knows what will be the end of it.' ' Rattle his bones over the stones, He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns," sang a boy, running past. Willie involuntarily glanced up at his companion. ' Is that the answer ?... | |
 | James Payn - 1884 - 296 strani
...world now he's gone ; Not a tear in the eye of child, woman, or man :— To the grave with his carcase as fast as you can. ' Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns !' This poem, until Miss Mitford rescued it from the almost stillborn little volume of poems entitled... | |
 | James O'Laverty - 1884 - 518 strani
...Graveyard. Three feet was all the County Surveyor required — just half the length of a Largy man. " We'll rattle his bones over the stones, He's only a pauper whom nobody owns. To the County Surveyor to cnt three feet off his father's corpse, might not be a matter of much importance,... | |
 | 1884 - 564 strani
...wished, if possible, to avoid a parish burial, having perhaps heard of the grim chorus of the song : Rattle his bones Over the stones, He's only a pauper whom nobody owns. So her son got up a " Lead " (pronounced to rhyme with " need "), which, as she explained, was a meeting... | |
 | 1906 - 1160 strani
...Drive " puts in the finishing touches to the picture of State-organized inhumanity. The refrain, " Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns ! ' sums up the general view of the ratepayers of those days. The Hatred of the Workhouse. The growth... | |
 | William Winters - 1885 - 250 strani
...as not worthy of a place among their wealthier friends. Apropos the following doggerel couplet — " Rattle his bones over the stones, He's only a pauper whom nobody owns. " The later registers are kept in a more precise and formal manner than the older ones, but they are... | |
 | 1886 - 552 strani
...Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns !" Oh, where are the mourners ? Alas ! there are none : He has left not a gap in the...eye of child, woman or man ; To the grave with his carcase as fast as you can ! " Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns... | |
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The road it is rough and the hearse has no springs ; And hark to the dirge which the sad driver sings : Rattle his bones over the stones ! He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns... 
