 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! tly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his...has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, And we heard by the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. When the clock toll'd... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...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...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. A But half of... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we, far away o'er the billow. 6. Lightly they'll speak 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 his comrades have laid him. 7. Not the... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1833 - 434 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! VI. 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. VII. But half... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...the/oe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! 6 " Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him." 7 But half of our... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1834 - 436 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! vr. 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. VII. But half... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1834 - 434 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! VI. 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. VII. But half... | |
 | B. Ducos - Great Britain - 1834 - 444 pages
...narrow l>ed , And srnooth'd down his lonely yilluw, 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 sIiirit that's gone, And o'er his eold ashes upbraid him , — But little he'll reek , if they let... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...the stranger would tread o'er his head'. And we' ... far away o'er the billow'. Lightly they'll speak 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 his comrades* have laid him'. Not... | |
 | Songs - 1835 - 320 pages
...the 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...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random... | |
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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... 
