 | Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1847 - 180 pages
...the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 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... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 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... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - 1847 - 178 pages
...the foe, and the stranger would tread o'er his head. And we far away on the billow ! 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... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 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... | |
 | 1847 - 906 pages
...That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him : But nothing he'll reck if they'll let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half our... | |
 | 1847 - 568 pages
...the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — Bat little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. " But... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1985 - 1106 pages
...tearing away the skin, showed he had been scalped, though still living. Chapter XXI "Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him." Charles... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2000 - 324 pages
...the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone. And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,-^ But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant... | |
 | 2013 - 249 pages
...the foe and the stranger would tread o'er Ms head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him," 85. THE VICTOEY OF... | |
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We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him... 
