 | Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 606 pages
...clock told the hour for retiring; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...of his fame fresh and gory: We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we lest him alone with his glory. » « On n'entendit pas un tambour , pas... | |
 | 1825 - 726 pages
...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 returning ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. " Slowly and... | |
 | 1826 - 494 pages
...— But little he'll reck, if they 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...distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carv'd not a... | |
 | 1826 - 520 pages
...— But little he'll reck, if they 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...distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carv'd not a... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...told the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly he plunder'd wreck When mariners would madly meet...doom With draughts intemperate on the sinking deck, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. HOURS OF IDLENESS. Jtfijr Of fit fidf... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing— When the clock tolled the hour for retiring, Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory! We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him—alone with his glory ! There have been several disputes about... | |
 | 1827 - 854 pages
...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,...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 " Nor will... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1827 - 500 pages
...— But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. VIII. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not... | |
 | 1827 - 554 pages
...clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, Which the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carv'd not a line, we rais'd not a stone, But -we left him alone in his glory. WHAT'S HONOR ? Not to... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...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,...not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory ! TO THE MEMORY OF A VERY PROMISING CHILD, WRITTEN AFTER WITNESSING HEB LAST MOMENTS. I CANNOT weep,... | |
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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 ! But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring,... 
