 | 1825 - 600 pages
...bed, And 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...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... | |
 | 1825 - 724 pages
...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 billow. "Lightly they'll talk...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 returning ; And we heard... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...pillow, [head, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his And we — far away on the hillow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour of retiring ; And we heard... | |
 | 1825 - 508 pages
...stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! ' Lightly they'll talk of I he 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... | |
 | 1826 - 520 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 6. " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 7. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard... | |
 | 1826 - 494 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the hillow ! 6. " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 7. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard... | |
 | 1827 - 854 pages
...bed, And 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...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... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1827 - 500 pages
...— But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. VIII. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...bed, And 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...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... | |
 | 1828 - 316 pages
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typhus fever which we had acquired, partly from coming 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... | |
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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. 
