 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,...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 118edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...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...sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carv'd not a line, and we rais'd not a stone — But... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 342 pages
...Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring j And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe...sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, Trom the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Chester Dodd Heywood - 1969 - 348 pages
...Wolfe on the 'Burial of Sir John Moore.' We buried our fallen heroes 'darkly at the dead of night.' We heard the 'distant and random gun that the foe was sullenly firing,' but our foe's guns were not so random for they were placing shells near by that shook the still air... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 pages
...In tin: grave where a 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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 pages
...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...sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we... | |
 | Arnold D. Harvey - 1998 - 350 pages
...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...sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we... | |
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