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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,... "
"Elocutionary Manual.": The Principles of Elocution, with Exercises and ... - Page 149
by Alexander Melville Bell - 1878 - 243 pages
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The children's harp, or, Select poetry for the young

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...
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Pearls from the poets: specimens selected, with biogr. notes, by H.W. Dulcken

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...
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The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte

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...
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Poetry for School and Home, from the best authors. Edited by T. Shorter

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...
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English Prose and Poetry

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 ;...
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The Book of Poetry: Collected from the Whole Field of British and ..., Volume 6

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...
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The World's Best-loved Poems

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...
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McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader

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 ;...
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The Original Rhythmical Grammar of the English Language

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,...
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Famous Poems from Bygone Days

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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