 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pàgines
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the étranger would tread o'er hie head, And we far away on the billow 1 Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down. From the field of his fame freeh... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pàgines
...head, And we far away on the billow I Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er bis cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck,...retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 pàgines
...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 little he'll reck...struck the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pàgines
...the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he '11 reck, if they '11 let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid...retiring ; A.nd we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suLenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pàgines
...bed, And amooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, We carved not a line, and we raised... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pàgines
...bed, And smuoth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 346 pàgines
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his And we far away on the billow ! [head, Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, IVom the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 342 pàgines
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his And we far away on the billow ! [head, Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring j And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 360 pàgines
...[head, Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — Bat little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pàgines
...Lightly they 'll talk of the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he 'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh... | |
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Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring;... 
