 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - History - 1899 - 446 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...the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, Ar1d we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - American poetry - 1902 - 772 pages
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread <r'ft his head, And we far away on the billow! "Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And... | |
 | Mrs. Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggins, Nora Archibald Smith - American poetry - 1916 - 784 pages
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'e his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er... | |
 | American poetry - 1902 - 778 pages
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, ' That the foe and the stranger would tread o'e his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er... | |
 | Katherine Devereux Blake, Georgia Alexander - Children's poetry - 1906 - 104 pages
...martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; s But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead,...the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, 10 And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold... | |
 | Ernest Pertwee - English poetry - 1906 - 432 pages
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought,...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er h head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American poetry - 1906 - 548 pages
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought,...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o 'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that 's gone, And... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks - Readers - 1907 - 268 pages
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought...That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll... | |
 | William Stebbing - English poetry - 1907 - 428 pages
...steadfastly gazed on the 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,...the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him— But little he'll... | |
 | Patriotic poetry - 1908 - 228 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his br.east, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er l swung myself upon the flattened shelf And with my feet thrust off, with all my might, Lightly they'll... | |
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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... 
