| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...o'er his cold ashes upbraid hirr^, — But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on Jn the grave where a Briton has laid him. " But half of our heavy...' 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 and... | |
| Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Brilon has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done,...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,... | |
| American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...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 our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour tor retiring; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly... | |
| John Sydney Taylor - Lawyers - 1843 - 568 pages
...And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'U 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 told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, Of the enemy sullenly firing.... | |
| Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...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, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. When the clock struck the... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave ing dropped the expected bag, pass on. He whistles...messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame freeh and gory... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reok, if they let him sleep on In the grave ealing 3. foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sailly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...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. But half of our heavy...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 and gory... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...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 our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring: And we heard by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
| John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...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...; 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 and gory... | |
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