 | James Carrick Moore - 1833 - 434 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! VI. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; Aud we heard... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow .' Lightly...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...we hollow'd his narrow bed,' And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him : But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 pages
...the/oe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! 6 " Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him." 7 But half... | |
 | James Kennedy - 1833 - 272 pages
...foe and the strang-er would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'lltalk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing- he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1834 - 436 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! vr. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; Aud we heard... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1834 - 434 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! VI. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring; Aud we heard... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...the stranger would tread o'er his head'. And we' ... far away o'er the billow'. Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone', And o'er his cold ashes'...reck', if they let him sleep on' In the grave where his comrades* have laid him'. Not the half of our heavy task was done', When the bell told the hour... | |
 | B. Ducos - 1834 - 444 pages
...narrow l>ed , And srnooth'd down his lonely yilluw, 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 sIiirit that's gone, And o'er his eold ashes upbraid him , — But little he'll reek , if they let... | |
 | B. Ducos - 1834 - 446 pages
...npbraid him , — But little he'll reek , if they Iei him sleep on In the grave where a Briton bas laid him. But half of our heavy task was done , When the eloek struek the hour for retirinp ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly... | |
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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. 
