 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 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.... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...away on the billow ! Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid 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 That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
 | Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1855 - 440 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 retiringAnd we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy, suddenly firing.... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 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 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... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1856 - 420 pages
...nothing he '11 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 ; And we heard, by the distant, random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. / 9 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down,... | |
 | Emma Serl - English language - 1914 - 350 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.... | |
 | World history - 1914 - 594 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | Vere Henry Collins - English poetry - 1914 - 198 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.... | |
 | Emilie Kip Baker - Children's poetry - 1915 - 232 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.... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - American poetry - 1915 - 568 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! 
