| Pip Wilson - Fiction - 2006 - 587 pages
...his Scottish guardian on the goldfields: "Is therefor honest Poverty That hings his head, an ' all that; The coward slave - we pass him by, We dare be poor for all that!" As the verses proceed, all of the Scots in the crowd and many of the others join in. The... | |
| 532 pages
...the great poem, " A man's a man for a' that," every line of which came like lava from his heart. " Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure,... | |
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