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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;... "
Historical Records of the British Army [Infantry] ... - Page 50
by Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1847
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Accepted Addresses; Or, Proemium Poetarum: To which are Added, Macbeth ...

1813 - 410 pages
...In the grave where a Briton has laid 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 sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved...
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Tickler, Or, Monthly Compendium of Good Things, in Prose and ..., Volumes 1-3

1818 - 596 pages
...In the grave whore 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 the distant and random gun, That tue foe was suddenly firing. Slswly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and...
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Travels in England, France, Spain, and the Barbary States: In the Years 1813 ...

Mordecai Manuel Noah - 1819 - 508 pages
...rest, AVi'li his martial cloak around him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled 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 and gory, We carved not a line,...
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The Poetical Common-place Book: Consisting of an Original Selection of ...

1822 - 418 pages
...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 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 and gory; We carv'd not a line,...
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The soldier's companion, or Martial recorder, consisting of biography ...

Soldier - 1824 - 518 pages
...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 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 and gory, We carved not a line,...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 24

1825 - 600 pages
...And we bitterly thought of the morrow. • We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...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 and gory ;...
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The Dublin and London magazine

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...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 and gory: We...
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Arliss's Literary collections

John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...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 the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fume fresh and gory; We carved...
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Journal of the conversations of lord Byron ... in the years 1821 and 1822

Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 578 pages
...In the grave where a Briton has laid 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 Of the enemy sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 95, Part 2; Volume 138

1825 - 726 pages
...has laid him. " But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for returning ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. " Slowly and sadly we kid him down, From the field of his feme freth and gory ; We...
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