| Children - 1859 - 200 pages
...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 sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We... | |
| Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...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 sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1860 - 720 pages
...the billow. [head, Bat half of our heavy task was done, Win n the clock struck the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly liring. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of tils fame fresh and gory; We... | |
| Thomas SHORTER - 1861 - 226 pages
...let him sleep on, 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 Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...has laid him. 24 But half of our weary task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; ide Had death so often dashed aside sullenly firing. 28 Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ;... | |
| Edwin Markham - 1927 - 402 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 carved... | |
| 1927 - 490 pages
...Briton has laid him. But half 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 carved... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pages
...has laid him. 7. 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. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ;... | |
| James Chapman - 378 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,... | |
| Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 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 carved... | |
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