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Idler, why lie down to die

Author: Ebenezer Elliott Appears in 2 hymnals
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Idler, why lie down to die

Author: Ebenezer Elliott Hymnal: Young Singer's Friend #a204 (1859)
Idler, why lie down to die

Better rub than rust

Author: Ebenezer Elliott Hymnal: The Truth Seeker Collection of Forms, Hymns and Recitations, Original and Selected, for the Use of Liberals #d161 (1877) First Line: Idler, why lie down to die
Better rub than rust

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Ebenezer Elliott

1781 - 1849 Author of "Idler, why lie down to die" Elliott, Ebenezer, commonly known as the "Corn Law Rhymer," was born near Rotherham, Yorkshire, 1781, and died at Barnsley, in the same county, in 1849. The greater part of his life was spent in Sheffield, where he was engaged in the iron trade, and it was in a Sheffield newspaper that many of his poetical pieces first appeared. He published:— (1) Night, a Descriptive Poem, 1818. (2) The Village Patriarch, 1829. (3) Corn Law Rhymes, 1831. (4) Poems, 1834 ; and (5) More Prose and Verse, 1850. A piece or two from these works have been adapted as hymns in some Unitarian Collections. They include "Another year is swallowed by the sea," for the old and new year. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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