 The loud wind roar'd, the rain fell fast; The White Man yielded to the blast: He sat him down, beneath our tree; For weary, sad, and faint was he; And ah, no wife, or mother's care, For him, the milk or corn prepare.  The Historical, biographical, literary, and scientific magazine, conducted ... - Page 274edited by Full view - About this book
 | Donald Mackenzie - Africa, North - 1877 - 358 pages
...him the subject of the following song :— The loud wind roar'd, the rain fell fast, The white man yielded to the blast; He sat him down beneath our tree, For weary and sad and faint was he. And ah, no wife or mother's care For him the milk or corn prepare. The storm... | |
 | Donald Mackenzie - Africa, North - 1877 - 360 pages
...yielded to the blast ; He sat him down beneath our tree, For weary and sad and faint was he. And ah, no wife or mother's care For him the milk or corn prepare. The storm is o'er, the tempest past, And Mercy's voice has hush'd the blast ; The wind is heard in... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1878 - 200 pages
...songs. THE TRAVELLER IN AFRICA. A NEGRO SONG. i. The loud wind roared, the rain fell fast, The white man yielded to the blast; He sat him down beneath our tree, For weary, sad, and faint was he: But, ah ! no wife nor mother's care For him the milk and corn prepare. CHORUS. 2. The white man shall... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1880 - 280 pages
...the singer produced a startling effect: — The loud wind roared, the rain fell fast, The white man yielded to the blast ; He sat him down beneath our tree, For weary, sad, and faint was ho ; And, oh, no wife or mother's care, For him the milk or corn prepare. CHORUS. The white man shall... | |
 | Robert Richardson - Africa, Central - 1893 - 376 pages
...- pare. IS, , II fX I fr ii IIS ^. g<v * fi The loud wind roared, the rain fell fast, The white man yielded to the blast ; He sat him down beneath our tree, For weary, sad, and faint was he : And ah, no wife, no mother's care, For him the milk or corn prepare. CHORUS. The white man shall our pity share... | |
 | Heinrich Barth - Africa, Central - 1857 - 730 pages
...no one to cook his supper and to take care of him when he falls sick, or to shampoo him; " And ah ! no wife or mother's care For him the milk or corn prepare." Leaving my companion to indulge in the "kief" of the Osmanli, of which he possessed a great deal, I... | |
 | Augustus Ferryman Mockler-Ferryman - Africa, Central - 1898 - 636 pages
...mother's care For him the milk or corn prepare. ( 'Imrus — The white man shall our pity share ; Alas ! no wife or mother's care For him the milk or corn prepare. 1 Joliba,one of the many names by which the Niger is known to the natives ; other names have been given... | |
 | John Downie Falconer - Nigeria - 1911 - 384 pages
...affords—has no one to cook his supper, and to take care of him when he falls sick :— "'And, ah! no wife or mother's care For him the milk or corn prepare.'" Times indeed have changed : and now a European would no more think of eating and drinking familiarly... | |
 | Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff - History - 1991 - 613 pages
...secure her liberation (Fairchild 1928:489-50): The loud wind roar'd, the rain fell fast; The White Man yielded to the blast: He sat him down, beneath our tree; For weary, sad, and faint was he; And ah, no wife, or mother's care, For him, the milk or corn prepare. Chorus: The White Man, shall our pity... | |
 | Edward Wilmot Blyden - Religion - 1993 - 460 pages
...as follows : — The loud wind roar'd, the rain fell fast ; Tho white man yielded to tho blast ; Ho sat him down beneath our tree, For weary, sad, and faint was ho ; And oh, no wife or mother's care For him the milk or corn prepare. Ciionus. The white man shall... | |
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