 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 416 pages
...We thought — as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — How the/oeand 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 o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 420 pages
...and short were the prayers we said, . And we spoke not a word of sorrow^; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, " ' And we bitterly thought of the morrot<*— • 5, We thought— MIS we 'hollowed his narrow bed, And Smoothed down bis lonely pillow... | |
 | English poetry - 1831 - 272 pages
...dead, And we bitterly thought on the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow besd,! And smoofh'd down his lonely pillow; That the foe and the stranger...head , And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll tal^ of J:l\e spjrit lhaj.';3 gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, But nothing he'it reck, if... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...morrow— Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; We thought—as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow— That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far «way on the billow! Lightly they 'll talk of the spirit... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, ». And we bitterly thought of the morrow — thought — as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — That the foe... | |
 | Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1831 - 318 pages
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hallow'd his narrow bed, And smooth-d down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought,...! 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ! But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought,...And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...bitterly thought of the morrow. 5. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lowly pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we, far away o'er the billow. 6. Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid... | |
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No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly... 
