 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pagina’s
...his 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pagina’s
...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...done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 394 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Samuel Lover - 1858 - 394 pagina’s
...smooth'd 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...done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pagina’s
...smoothed down bis 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...was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pagina’s
...smoothed down his lonely pillowHow the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, While we were far on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit...done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 pagina’s
...smooth' d 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...him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the cloek struck the hour for retiring; 221 And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1860 - 486 pagina’s
...with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling Moonbeam's misty light and the lantern dimly burning. Lightly they'll Talk of the spirit that's gone, and...sleep on in the grave where a Briton has laid him. Again, such lines as Coleridge's — 1. Make ready my grave clothes to-m6rrow ; or Shelley's — 2.... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pagina’s
...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...done When the clock struck the hour for retiring: And we heard the distant and random gun Tbat the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 pagina’s
...smoothed down his lonely pillow-^How the foe and the straflger would tread o'er his head, And We far aWay on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random giln That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
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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. 
