 | 1835 - 320 pages
...a Briton has laid him. But half 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 sudenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and glory, We carv'd... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...has laid him." 7. 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 — 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory We carved not a... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 pages
...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 and gory : We... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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 and gory ; We... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...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 and gory : We... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pages
...a-Britop 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 and gory : We... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...ashes upbraid 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 suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory : We carv'd not a line,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pages
...Brilon 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 suddenly firing. Slowly and sad we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory, We carved not a line, and... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...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 and gory; We... | |
 | 1842 - 796 pages
...imperfect copy of the original. In one it is quite plain that the stanza, which closes with the lines — ' And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sulienly firing.' and in which the word ' suddenly' is often substituted for ' sullenly' was printed... | |
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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,... 
