 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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 ; STANZAS.... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 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... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him! But half of our heavy task was done, When the bell tolled 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1856 - 730 pages
...the grave where a Briton lias laid him. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour* for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly f firing. " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory —... | |
 | Honor - 1856 - 94 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... | |
 | Ireland - 1856 - 1492 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... | |
 | Honor, Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1856 - 108 pages
...head. And we far away on the billow ! . 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1856 - 320 pages
...the grave where a Briton has laid him. 7 But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing— 8 ( jj ) Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field "f his fame fresh and... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...the grave where a Briton has laid him. But5 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. BOAD1CEA. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 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 sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We... | |
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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. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring... 
