| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...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. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We... | |
| sir Charles Gavan Duffy - Ballads, Irish - 1845 - 262 pages
...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. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; A LAMENT... | |
| John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...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. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We... | |
| Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...* A gallant British General, killed by the French in battle, at Corunna. in Spam, Jan. 16th, 1809. And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing — 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory We carved not a... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
| William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...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, suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...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. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory : We... | |
| Ballads, American - 1846 - 166 pages
...on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half 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 sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory, We... | |
| Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1847 - 180 pages
...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 1 Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line... | |
| Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...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 suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and... | |
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