 | James Kennedy - 1830 - 502 trang
...billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid himBut half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard, by... | |
 | 1831 - 318 trang
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typhus fever which we had acquired, partly from coming Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...retiring ; And we 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... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 trang
...Lightly they 'll talk of the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he 'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring, And we heard, by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 trang
...Lightly they 'll talk of the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he 'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where...has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, And we heard, by the distant random gun, ThaMhe foe was suddenly firing— When the clock tolled the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 trang
...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...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. A But half of our heavy task was clone, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 trang
...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...reck if they let him sleep on, In the grave where his comrades have laid him. 7. Not the half of our heavy task was done, When the bell toll'd the hour... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 trang
...billow ! tly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,— But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 trang
...down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be 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 reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1833 - 434 trang
...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...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 ; Aud we heard... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 trang
...down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be 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 reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
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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. 
