...such occasions arose, from the depredations or rick-burnings of the starving agricultural workers. The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high and lowly, And ordered their estate.37 It was this attitude that made Richard Cobden explode: We are...

...forth in popular hymns: The trivial round, the common task, Should furnish all we ought to ask.27 and The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high and lowly And ordered their estate.28 These were sentiments that we might expect Etty, with his strong...

...flower that opens, each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colors, He made their tiny wings. The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, He made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate. The purple headed mountains, the river running...

...help, you're not. I never could see why that man was allowed to question the ways of the Almighty. "The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate", says the hymn. And what's wrong with that, I'd like to know? If there' d been a cottagers' class, as...

...was not immediately removed. As late as the nineteenth century a verse in a popular hymn went thus: The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, He made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.* 1 . The Chain of Being myth has also influenced...

...functions. Markree is the castle referred to in the hymn 'All Things Bright and Beautiful' by the lines 'the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate'. MRS ALEXANDER (see Co. Derry, page 248), who wrote the hymn, stayed at Markree and, impressed by the...

...of the era in which, as the well known hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful composed in 1848 put it: The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, He made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate. The Industrial Revolution - encapsulated in...

...bird that sings, He made their glowing colours, He made their tiny wings. Chorus: The purple headed mountain, the river running by, The sunset and the morning, that brightens up the sky. Chorus: The cold wind in the winter, the pleasant summer sun, The ripe fruits in the garden, He made...