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Ebenezer Elliott Quotes

1781–1849 England

Ebenezer Elliott (17 March 1781 – 1 December 1849) was an English poet, known as the Corn Law rhymer for his leading the fight to repeal the Corn Laws, which were causing hardship and starvation among the poor. Though a factory owner himself, his single-minded devotion to the welfare of the labouring classes won him a sympathetic reputation long after his poetry ceased to be read.

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What is a communist? One who hath yearnings
For equal division of unequal earnings:
Idler, or bungler, or both, he is willing
To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.

Epigram (1850)

Come they from Scythian wilds afar,
Our blood to spill?

Yet walk with me where hawthorns hide
The wonders of the lane.

Almighty Father! let thy lowly child,
Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,—
A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled,
Let him live usefully, and not die old!

Donought would have everything;
Eat the lark, and use its wing;
Sip the sweet, and be the sting:
Donought is the only King.

Things of to-day?
Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!

Stern fate and time
Will have their victims; and the best die first,
Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime,
To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd,
Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.

A poet’s prayer. Almighty Father! let thy lowly child,
Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold — ,
A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled,
Let him live usefully, and not die old I,
Let poor men's children, pleased to read his lays,
Love, for his sake, the scenes where he hath been.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ebenezer Elliott (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.