 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done, When the elock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 Seiten
...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 and random gun That the foo was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 Seiten
...reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing — Slowly and sadly we laid him down,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 Seiten
...In the grave where a Jiriton 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 random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 Seiten
...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 random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | 1854 - 576 Seiten
...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 random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh... | |
 | 1854 - 456 Seiten
...he '11 reck, if they '11 let him sleep on But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 Seiten
...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 random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | 1855 - 458 Seiten
...gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 Seiten
...he '11 reck, if they '11 let him sleep on But half of our heavy task was done, When, the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
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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. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring... 
