 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pagine
...billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him : But nothing 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 tolled the hour for retiring: And we heard by the... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pagine
...! they '11 talk of the spirit that '3 gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he '11 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 ; And we heard the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagine
...they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reok, But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the... | |
 | 1844 - 328 pagine
...talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him. But nothing he reck if they'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half our easy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard by the distant... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pagine
...lonelv 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...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 ; And we heard the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagine
...the conception of the bed and pillow gracefully harmonises :h that of the " warrior taking his rest." Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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 ; And we heard the... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pagine
...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...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 ; And we heard the... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pagine
...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...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 ; And we heard the... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pagine
...and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk o the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid...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 ; And we heard the... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pagine
...biriow. Lig'htly they'll talk of the spi'rit/ that's g'one, And o'er his cold a'shes/ upbraid h'im ; And lit'tle he'll re'ck (if they let him sleep o'n) In the gra've/ where a B'riton has laid hi'm ! But half of our heavy task was do'ne, When the clo'ck/ struck the hour for reti'ring, And we h'eard... | |
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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. 
