 | John Wilson - 1844 - 142 pages
...satisfied to let you go. We thought as we hollowed 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. From the first hour of existence to the last, from the cradle of the infant, beside which the mother... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollowed his narrow bod, And smooth'd down his lowly pillow, That the foe and 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 upbraid him;... | |
 | Quaver - 1844 - 552 pages
...useless coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; We thought as we heap'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'erhishead, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, 'And o'er... | |
 | William Robert Wilde - 1844 - 674 pages
...the nearest spot, but indeed the only one that the circumstances of that memorable night afforded. " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes uphraid him ;" but if blame could have been attached to him, it may have been for accepting a command... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed music, who can say What are its tidings? have our troops awaked! Or do bis head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pages
...And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 5. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, . And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 6. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold asjhes upbraid him ; But little... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 pages
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o1er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they1ll talk of the spirit that1s gone, And o1er... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1985 - 1106 pages
...are revealed by 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...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 Wolfe, "The Burial of... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 pages
...With his martial cloak around him . . . 5. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow . . . 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down. From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 pages
...dead, And we hitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollow'd his narrow hed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the hillow! But little he'll reck if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But... | |
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Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 
