 | Children's literature - 1842 - 414 pages
...Liphtly they'll think of the spirit that's gone, But still we will never upbraid them, — For little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Father has laid him. Soon was our hard and heavy task done, When, warned it was time for retiring,... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - Lawyers - 1843 - 568 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...And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'U reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...lonely pillow, The foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow I 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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...and 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. 20* Not the... | |
 | Quaver - Songs - 1844 - 552 pages
...narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'erhishead, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk...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 by the distant and... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1844 - 452 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...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on In the ground where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er 1844 little he'll reok, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er bis still, as if with opium drugged, Snore to the murmurs of the Atlantic wave? Is little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our... | |
 | Printers - 1844 - 328 pages
...That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er Ml head. And we far away on the billow. Lightly they 11 talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him. But nothing he reck if they'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half our easy task... | |
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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... 
