Corrections: "My father he rides with your sheriffs", "Judge without haste or alarm", "Gypsy who begged for your presents", "Rivers run thicker than trouble", "Taking revenge on your blood."
The father is on the side of the authorities, but the narrator takes a more balanced view. And when the poor rise up, the narrator expects to be swept away by the revolution too. And regardless, there will come a time where you'll need others, and then there will be payback for all the cruelty.
And Thomson was in his early 20s when he wrote this.
Corrections: "My father he rides with your sheriffs", "Judge without haste or alarm", "Gypsy who begged for your presents", "Rivers run thicker than trouble", "Taking revenge on your blood."
The father is on the side of the authorities, but the narrator takes a more balanced view. And when the poor rise up, the narrator expects to be swept away by the revolution too. And regardless, there will come a time where you'll need others, and then there will be payback for all the cruelty.
And Thomson was in his early 20s when he wrote this.