 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 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... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 426 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 and random gun, That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 430 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 and random gun, That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 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 the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 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 the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing.... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 498 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 and random gun, That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, Wh«n the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...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 the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing — 8 Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 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, And we heard, by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. When the clock tolled the... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 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.... | |
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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. 
