 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,...  Arliss's Literary collections - Σελίδα 159των John Arliss - 1825 - 358 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1840 - 378 σελίδες
...where a-Britop has. laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring And we heard the distant and random gun That...and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But left him alone with his... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 σελίδες
...reck, if they'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our dreary task was done, When the clock told the hour of retiring;...Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory.... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 σελίδες
...But half of our heavy tasA was done, | When the clocA told the hour for retiring ; | And we knew by the distant, and random gun, | That the foe was sullenly firing. | Slowly, and sadly we laid Aim down | From the field of Ais fame, fresh, and gory : | We carv'd not a line,, — | we rais'd not... | |
 | Lyre - 1841 - 374 σελίδες
...done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; Aud we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his... | |
 | Lyre - 1841 - 366 σελίδες
...done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 σελίδες
...his cold ashes upbraid him ; But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory : We... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1842 - 366 σελίδες
...where a Briton has laid him. ' But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun...and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 σελίδες
...where a Briton has laid him. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring; ' And we heard the distant and random gun...and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carv'd not a line, and we rais'd not a stone, But wo left him alone with his... | |
 | 1862 - 512 σελίδες
...toll'd the hour for retiring; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down — From the field of his fame, fresh and gory. Tils poet, who has afforded to to many thousands of readers the luxury of Uuighter... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 σελίδες
...where a Brilon has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sad we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory, We carved... | |
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