 | Edward Hayes (collector of ballads) - 1856 - 442 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...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 heard by the distant... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 trang
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head. And we far away on the billow ! 10 Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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 heard the distant and... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 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...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 heard the distant... | |
 | Honor - 1856 - 94 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...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 heard the distant... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 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...In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant... | |
 | 1856 - 1492 trang
...the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they 11 talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold...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 heard the distant and... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 trang
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on tha billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But5 half of our heavy' task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the... | |
 | Edward Hayes - 1856 - 396 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 Viim. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 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...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 heard the distant... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 394 trang
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, Aiid we far away on the billow ! 10. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 11. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the... | |
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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. 
