 | 1840 - 368 pages
...struck the hour for retiring And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was 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 left him alone with his glory. IF I had thought thou couldst have died,... | |
 | Lyre - 1841 - 366 pages
...told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy 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 left him alone with his glory. V THE WAR OF THE LEAGUE. A / . BY... | |
 | Lyre - 1841 - 374 pages
...told the hour for retiring ; Aud we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy 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 left him alone with his glory. THE WAR OF THE LEAGUE. BY THOMAS MACAULEY.... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...struck 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 carv'd not a line, and we rais'd not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. WHAT, then, is... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...the hour for retiring, And we heard by the distant, random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. 6. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...carved not a line, we raised not a stone, '*. But left him alone with his glory ! QUESTIONS. — 1. Who was Sir John Moore1? 2. Where, when, and by whom... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 pages
...considerable military success against Napoleon's forces in Spain. The poem ends: "We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — / But we left him alone with his glory" (lines 3 1-32). 16.1533-34 (655:22-23). unless it ensued that ... to be a party to it - There is considerable... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would 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 a line, and we raised not a stone But we left him alone with his glory! The lines celebrate a heroic memory... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. (1. 11—12) 3 We carved not a line, and And then the Windows failed — and then I could not see to s 31—32) ChTr; EnRP; FaBoPa; FaBoRV; FaFP; FaPoR; GN; GTBS; GTBS-P; NOBE; OBEV; OBWP; PoRA; PWR; WaaP;... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 pages
...struck the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was 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 left him alone in his glory. HENRY CLAY WORK (1832-1884) "GRANDFATHER'S... | |
 | John Beatty - 1998 - 404 pages
...we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. * * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a Vine, we raised not a stone, But left him aloue with his glory." 13. We are in a field near Harrodsburg.... | |
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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 left him alone with his glory. 
