 | 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.... | |
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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. 
