 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pagina’s
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow 1 Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him 1 But half of our heavy task was done, When the bell toll'd the hour for retiring; And we heard the... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 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... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pagina’s
...smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the strangerwould 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 dock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pagina’s
...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 ashes upbraid him — But...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... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 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... | |
 | 1863 - 392 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... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pagina’s
...as we hollow'd his narrow bed, 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...heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour of retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun . That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1863 - 370 pagina’s
...And smooth'd down his lonely pillow How 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 clack told the hour for retiring And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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...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... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 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... | |
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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. 
