 | Richard Cannon - 1848 - 174 pages
...heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing I Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line ; we raised not a stone ; But we left him alone with his glory 1 After taking part in covering the... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1848 - 460 pages
...That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of hie fame fresli and gory : We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone. But we left him alone with his glory !" By studying carefully this poem, the young reader will... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...was suddenly firing. When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring; Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory, We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. TO A TUFT OF EARLY VIOLETS. Thus prematurely... | |
 | Bennett George Johns - Spain - 1849 - 268 pages
...struggling moonbeam's misty light And our lanterns dimly burning. * * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. After Moore's death, Wellesley marched... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. I unhesitatingly say, my young friends,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sulleuly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory. ALONZO THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR IMOGENE. BY MATTHEW GREGORY... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 568 pages
...poet Charles Wolfe (1791-1823). The final stanza of the ode says, "slowly and sadly we laid him down,/ From the field of his fame, fresh and gory;/ We carved not a line, we raised not a stone—/ But we left him alone in his glonr" (see Hoagland, pp. 388-89). Sir John... | |
 | Chester Dodd Heywood - History - 1969 - 348 pages
...the memory that will never be effaced.1 "'Slowly and sadly we laid them down, From the field of their fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line and we raised not a stone, But we left them alone with their glory.'" The line reached by the division on the night of... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory! DEFINITIONS. — 3. Mar'tial (pro. mar'shal), military.... | |
 | Zack R. Bowen - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 394 pages
...accorded the British leader by his vanquished and retreating army: Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory — We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory! When the origin of the words is known,... | |
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Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory ! SONG. 
