 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...hit narrow IK And emooth'd down his lonely pillow. That the foe and the stranger would trd o'er hit head And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the epiritthaf- ps-, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he'll reck, if they Irt kii sleep... | |
 | Medicine - 1827 - 554 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll...grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our duty was yet done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random... | |
 | 1827 - 854 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly...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... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - Sermons, English - 1827 - 500 pages
...they '11 talk of the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...said, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting...has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, And we heard, by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. When the clock tolled the... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 6 " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In 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... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly...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... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | Europe - 1828 - 316 pages
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typhus fever which we had acquired, partly from coming 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... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 650 pages
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typl'"8 fever which we had acquired, partly from coming 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... | |
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We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him... 
