 | Code poetical reader - 1877 - 168 pages
...cloak * around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; 15 But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead,...the foe* and the stranger would tread o'er his head, £o And we far away on the billow.* Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1867 - 498 pages
...sorrow; And we steadfastly gazed || on the face of the dead, And we Utterly thought j of the morrow. 5. We thought, || as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down || his lonely pillow, That the/oev | and the stranger* \\ would tread o'er his head, And we' \ far away || on the billow. 6. Lightly... | |
 | Richard Lewis - Elocution - 1877 - 200 pages
...they demand the same promineno • (pitch) as the noun itself in such cases. PS " We thought (adv. s) as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, NS That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we fair away on the billow." PS It... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - Elocution - 1878 - 254 pages
...thinking beings. In the last clause "morrow" will be accented, because it introduces a new idea. 21. "We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed. And smoothed...and the stranger | would tread o'er his head, And -MC | far away \ on the billow." No emphasis in the first two lines, " we thought" having been already... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 284 pages
...sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 5. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed. And smoothed...That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his 6. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - English poetry - 1878 - 376 pages
...gazed on fhe face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow,...That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his heac. And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit thaf s gone And o'er his cold... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 824 pages
...prayers we paid, And \ve spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and I he stranger would tread o'er his head, And we lur away on the DUlow 1 Lightly they'll talk of the... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1881 - 492 pages
...sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 5. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foev and the stranger^ would tread o'er his head, And we^ far away on the billow. 6. Lightly they'll... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...Lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his...That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his hea -3, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his... | |
 | P R Jackson - 1882 - 184 pages
...cloak * around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; 1 5 But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead,...foe * and the stranger would tread o'er his head, 20 And we far away on the billow.* Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold... | |
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Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we... 
