 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1848 - 460 pages
...uphraid 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.... | |
 | Richard Cannon - 1848 - 174 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 suddenly firing... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 424 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.... | |
 | 1856 - 666 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.... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...upbraid him, But nothing he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 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.... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 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 random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...him, — But little he '11 reck, if they '11 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 ; A.nd we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suLenly firing.... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 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 toll'cl the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 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! 
