Excerpt from Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems, Vol. 2 of 2 Who fly from home for luxury and ease, Draining the country of its produce; taking Each shilling you can grasp, and then forsaking Your native land, and the poor slaves whose toil Drew forth your wealth from the luxuriant soil; Say, is it just to draw your riches thence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.