 | Soldier - 1824 - 518 pages
...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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...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...they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton hath laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring, And... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - England - 1824 - 496 pages
...the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! • ... » . . 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. But half of our heavy... | |
 | 1825 - 508 pages
...' Lightly they'll talk of I he 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...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 sullenly firing.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1825 - 726 pages
..."Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er hit cold ashes upbraid him— But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave,...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for returning ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1825 - 710 pages
...the foe and the stranger would tread u'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, if they let him sleep on In the grave, where a Briton has laid him. " But half of... | |
 | 1825 - 600 pages
...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, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave' where a Briton has laid him. ' But half of... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his And we — far away on the hillow. 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 laid him. But half of our... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...lonely pillow— Haw the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his And we far away on the billow! fhead, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, In the grave where a Briton has laid him." ' But... | |
 | English essays - 1826 - 696 pages
...head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly ihcy'll speak of the spirit that'« gone, And o'er hi* cold ashes upbraid him : But nothing he'll reck if they let him sleep on In a grave where a Union has laid him. But half of our heavy ta*k was done When the clock lold the hour... | |
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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... 
