 | Old Humphrey - 1842 - 366 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 604 pages
...imperfect copy of the original. In one it is quite plain that the stanza, which closes with the lines — 1 And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing,' and in which the word ' suddenly' is often substituted for 'sullenly' wag printed... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; senger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame freeh and gory ; We... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; bert Chambers sullenly firing. Slowly and sailly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 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... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 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... | |
 | sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1845 - 262 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; A LAMENT... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...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 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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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,... 
