 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...  Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women - Pagina 4381885 - 648 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | 1825 - 724 pagina’s
...thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stronger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the...the grave, where a Briton has laid him. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for returning ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | 1825 - 710 pagina’s
...his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread u'er his head, And we far away on the billow. "Lightly...the grave, where a Briton has laid him. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for returning ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | 1827 - 854 pagina’s
...dead, And we bitterly though t of the morrow. We thought, as we hallow'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... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pagina’s
...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,...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... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pagina’s
...the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his harrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the...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 Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pagina’s
...narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er bis still, as if with opium drugged, Snore to the murmurs of the Atlantic wave? Is of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pagina’s
...struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like...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... | |
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