A little tea, one leaf I did not steal. For guiltless bloodshed I to God appeal ; Put tea in one scale, human blood in t'other And think what 'tis to slay a harmless brother. Smugglers and Smuggling - Page 141by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill - 1924 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
| Electronic journals - 1920 - 450 pages
...Rond in the County of Wilts. who was barbarously murdered on the shore near Poole, the" 25th March, 1765. A little Tea, one leaf I did not steal, For guiltless bloodshed I to God appeal, Put Тел in one scale, human blood in tother. And think what tis to slay thy harmless brother. I wonder... | |
| Electronic journals - 1920 - 968 pages
...Rond in the County of Wilts. who was barbarously murdered on the shore near Poole, the 25th March, 1765. A little Tea, one leaf I did not steal. For...in one scale, human blood in tother. And think what (is to slay thy harmless brother. I wonder whether any reader of ' N. & Q.' knows anything of the facts... | |
| Epitaphs - 1875 - 192 pages
...know it. In Kinson Churchyard, Dorset, to the memory of a man who was murdered near Poole, March 24, 1765 : — A little tea one leaf I did not steal, For guiltless blood shed I to God appeal ; Put tea in one scale, human blood in tother, And think what 'tis to slay... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - General - 1873 - 584 pages
...EPITAPH IN KINSON CHURCHYARD, DORSETSHIRE. "One little ounce of tea I did not steal. From human justice I to God appeal. • Put tea in one scale, human blood in t'other, And think what 'tis to kill a Harmless brother." Very harmless! The tombstone records i the age and death of a smuggler who... | |
| Charles George Harper - Smuggling - 1909 - 362 pages
...Rowd, in the county of Wilts, who was barbarously murdered on the shore near Poole, the 24th March, 1765. A little tea, one leaf I did not steal. For...t'other And think what 'tis to slay a harmless brother. This man was shot in an encounter with the revenue officers. He was one of a gang that used the church... | |
| John Edward Patterson - English poetry - 1913 - 428 pages
...barbarously Murdered on the Shore near Poole, the 24th March, 1765. A little Tea, one leaf I did but Steal ; For guiltless Bloodshed I to God appeal :...t'other, And think what 'tis to Slay a harmless Brother. 1 In the parish churchyard, Mylor, Falmouth. 1 At Kinson by Bournemouth. ..t 1 HUMOROUS PIECES CABIN... | |
| Piya Chatterjee - Business & Economics - 2001 - 444 pages
...smuggler offers a divine appeal: "A little tea one leaf I did not steal / For guiltless blood shed, I to God appeal. / Put tea in one scale, human blood in t'other / And think what 'tis to slay thy harmless brother." 50 Nation Making and a Tea Party It was, however, a tax on tea that caused the... | |
| Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 656 pages
...S. 1979:84) And the rewards of being caught smuggling could be as grim as one headstone witnesses: A little tea; one leaf I did not steal For guiltless...t'other And think what 'tis to slay a harmless brother. (Hardy, 1979:80) Besides the illegal business, by 1785 the legal tea trade was also thriving as witnessed... | |
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