 | Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 oldal
...misty light, and the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast ; not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; but he lay like a warrior...in the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done, when the bell tolled the hour for retiring ; and we heard the distant and... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 oldal
...fired 4 Jtero, noble and loved one n warrior, soldier 12 martial, soldier's 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... | |
 | London readers - 1878 - 248 oldal
...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We 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... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 354 oldal
...misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior...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 Eliot - 1879 - 152 oldal
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; Few and short were the prayers we said, 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 oldal
...we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down hie lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would...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... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 oldal
...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning — By the struggling moonbeam's...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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 oldal
...misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half ot our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 296 oldal
...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the *morrow. We 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... | |
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 232 oldal
...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We 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... | |
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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... 
