 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pągines
...That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him- ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pągines
...foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! tly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,— But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1833 - 434 pągines
...the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! VI. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; Aud we heard... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pągines
...and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow .' Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 pągines
...the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! 6 " Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him." 7 But half... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pągines
...That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him : But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1834 - 436 pągines
...the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! vr. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; Aud we heard... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1834 - 434 pągines
...the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! VI. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring; Aud we heard... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pągines
...stranger would tread o'er his head'. And we' ... far away o'er the billow'. Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone', And o'er his cold ashes'...reck', if they let him sleep on' In the grave where his comrades* have laid him'. Not the half of our heavy task was done', When the bell told the hour... | |
 | B. Ducos - 1834 - 444 pągines
...talk of the sIiirit that's gone, And o'er his eold ashes upbraid him , — But little he'll reek , if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton...him. But half of our heavy task was done , When the eloek struek tbe hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly... | |
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We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head; And we far away on the billow! 
