 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...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 ; But nothing he'll...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing.... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 422 pages
...tread o'er his head, Aud we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...o'er his And we far away on the billow! [head, " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he'll...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...rioting over 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; But nothing he'll...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... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | Europe - 1828 - 316 pages
...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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 650 pages
...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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 6 " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll...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 the... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...they'll talk of the spirit 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 our heavy task was done, Wh«n the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe... | |
 | Charles Wolfe - Sermons, English - 1828 - 312 pages
...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 of our heavy task was done, - When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard... | |
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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... 
