 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 320 pages
...grave where a Briton has laid him." 7 But half of our heavy task was done, 8 ( a ) Slowly and saxlly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory! We cjflfenot a line, we raised not a stone, BinH Bim — alone with his glory I Wolfe. EXERCISE 30. Eve... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sulleuly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory. ALONZO THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR IMOGENE.... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...the bell toini the hour for retiring, And we knew by the distant random gun, That the foe was then suddenly tiring. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory, We carv'd not a line, we raised not a stone, But left him alone — with his glory. THE SAILOR- BOY'S... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory! DEFINITIONS. — 3. Mar'tial (pro.... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - Political Science - 1991 - 244 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow . . . 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down. From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone But we left him alone with his glory! The lines celebrate a heroic memory... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...struck the hour for retiring, 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; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. HENRY CLAY WORK (1832-1884) "GRANDFATHER'S... | |
 | John Beatty - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. * * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a Vine, we raised not a stone, But left him aloue with his glory." 13. We are in a field near Harrodsburg.... | |
 | William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - British - 1999 - 398 pages
...sad though honourable duty of burying him on that fatal evening. It was they who 'Slowly and sadly laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; ' and it was they who were the last of the British force to embark in the darkness of the night.... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - Nationalism - 2005 - 276 pages
...and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow... 8. Slowly and sadly es laid him down. From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory! 1. No es va escoltar cap tambor... | |
 | M. B. Synge - History - 2013 - 249 pages
...which, after years of fighting, freed their country from Napoleon. 34. SIB JOHN MOOEE AT COEUNA. " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory." — CHABLES WOLFE. MEANWHILE Napoleon... | |
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Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. 
