 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 trang
...the hour for retiring, And we heard by the distant, random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. 6. 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 left him alone with his glory ! QUESTIONS. —... | |
 | 1842 - 796 trang
...imperfect copy of the original. In one it is quite plain that the stanza, which closes with the lines — ' And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sulienly firing.' and in which the word ' suddenly' is often substituted for ' sullenly' was printed... | |
 | 1843 - 368 trang
...they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring And we...Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of liis fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But left him alone with... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 trang
...loll'd the hour for retiring, And we knew by the distant random gun, That the foe was then suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory, We carv'd not a line, we raised not a stone, But left him alone — with his glory. THE SAILOR. BOY'S... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 trang
...John Moore," by Irish clergyman and 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,... | |
 | Chester Dodd Heywood - 1969 - 348 trang
...Wolfe on the 'Burial of Sir John Moore.' We buried our fallen heroes 'darkly at the dead of night.' We heard the 'distant and random gun that the foe was sullenly firing,' but our foe's guns were not so random for they were placing shells near by that shook the still air... | |
 | Zack R. Bowen - 1974 - 394 trang
...which relates the last hurried rites 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 trang
...the hour for retiring; And we heard 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.... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 trang
...In tin: grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory, We carved... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 trang
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow . . . 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! The lines celebrate... | |
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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 heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring,... 
