 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 oldal
...him ; Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow : But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought...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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 oldal
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow ! We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done, When the bell toll'd the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 oldal
...down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away ou the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's...the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sulleuly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 oldal
...gazed on the face that was dead, And we Utterly thought of the iBorrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow,...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... | |
 | 1856 - 706 oldal
...th- gazed on the face that was dead And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow,...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 beard the distant... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 oldal
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smuoth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 oldal
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd hia narrow bed, And amooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 oldal
...that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as wo hollowed his narrow bed, Aud smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was dono, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 oldal
...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow : But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, \ nd we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we...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... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 oldal
...dead And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...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... | |
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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... 
