 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - Sermons, English - 1827 - 500 pages
...they '11 talk of the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he '11 reck, if they let him 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 ; And we heard... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 498 pages
...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. Lightly they'll...has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 426 pages
...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. Lightly they'll...has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...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 ! Lightly...has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...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. Lightly they'll...has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk...has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the houi of retiring ; But hi ^ When 1 And vre heard by the distant and random... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 422 pages
...bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, Aud we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of...has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...pillow — How 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...has laid him." But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 6 " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him." 7 But half of our heavy task was done, . When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth'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...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... | |
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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 ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him... 
