Over your face a web of lies is woven, Laws that are falsehoods pin you to the ground, Labour is mocked, its just reward is stolen, On its bent back sits Idleness encrowned. How long, while you sleep, Your harvest shall It reap ? Arise, O England, for... Socialist Songs with Music - Seite 201901 - 34 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry Stephens Salt - 1893 - 386 Seiten
...dear ? Shall it die unheard — That sweet pleading word ? Arise, O England, for the day is here ! Over your face a web of lies is woven, Laws that are...while you sleep, Your harvest shall It reap? Arise, O England, for the day is here ! Forth, then, ye heroes, patriots and lovers ! Comrades of danger, poverty,... | |
| 1906 - 140 Seiten
...dear ? Shall it die unheard — That sweet pleading word ? Arise, O England, for the day is here ! 4 Over your face a web of lies is woven, Laws that are...while you sleep, Your harvest shall It reap ? Arise, O England, for the day is here ! 5 Forth, then, ye heroes, patriots, and lovers ! Comrades of danger,... | |
| S. G. Hobson - 1917 - 192 Seiten
...grasping the true meaning of industrial oppression, singing in similar numbers but with a different bias : Over your face a web of lies is woven, Laws that are falsehoods bind you to the ground, Labour is mocked, its just rewards are stolen : Arise, O England, for the day... | |
| 1920 - 438 Seiten
...and stimulate a passion of class hatred. Congregations are set to sing such words as these : — ' Over your face a web of lies is woven, Laws that are falsehoods put you to the ground ; Labour is mocked, its just reward is stolen, On its bent back sits idleness... | |
| James K. Hopkins - 1998 - 516 Seiten
..."England Arise." Those assembled sang of the England that had allowed itself to become a subject nation: Over your face a web of lies is woven, Laws that are...while you sleep, Your harvest shall it reap? Arise, O England, for the day is here! The mourners assembled to hear what they had known for fifty years, that... | |
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