 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1860 - 722 pages
...would tread o'er his And wo far away on 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... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...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: And we heard the distant and random gun Tbat the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, We carved not a... | |
 | Sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1861 - 264 pages
...him, — Put little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has hud him. Bat 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... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...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 ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 pages
...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 ; 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... | |
 | 1884 - 918 pages
...Shakespeareauism.'2 And now, as it was said when brave Moore was laid to rest in his cloak, "But half our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; " nor, indeed, will it be unexpected if I hear from over. Will it be believed ? Bottom's " wren with... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pages
...him ; But little he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton 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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 pages
...the hillow! 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, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field... | |
 | Arnold D. Harvey - 1998 - 350 pages
...our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning . . . 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... | |
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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, 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... 
