 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 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. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...upbraid him ; But nothing 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...the grave where a Briton has laid him. 11. 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. 12. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory;... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 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 carved... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1746 pages
...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our weary 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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...the grave where a Briton has laid him. 24 But half of our weary task was done When the clock struck n studs and tough bull-hide Had death so often dashed aside sullenly firing. 28 Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ;... | |
 | Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1927 - 402 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 carved... | |
 | American poetry - 1927 - 490 pages
...on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half 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 carved... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 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 carved... | |
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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... 
