 | John Sydney Taylor - Lawyers - 1843 - 568 pages
...upbraid him ; But nothing he'U 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 told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, Of the enemy sullenly firing.... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...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. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wre struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1844 - 402 pages
...upbraid him, But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on In the ground where a Briton has laid him. 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 fee was sullenly firing.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...upbraid him — But little he'll reok, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid r joy 3. struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...upbraid him ; But little he '11 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 struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him." 7. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring, * A gallant British General, killed by the French in battle, at Corunna. in Spam, Jan. 16th, 1809.... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing.1... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...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 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.... | |
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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! 
