| Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 pages
...the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him— But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pages
...him. — But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. u But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring: And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. * Coronach Slowly and sadly... | |
| Joseph Albert Mosher - 1920 - 668 pages
...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; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
| Robert Bridges - 1924 - 296 pages
...upbraid him ; But little he '11 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 : And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
| Lennox Robinson - 1925 - 370 pages
...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, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
| Lennox Robinson - 1925 - 368 pages
...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, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...upbraid him ; But little he '11 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 ; And wp heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly anil sadly we laid... | |
| Charles Lewis Hind - 1925 - 186 pages
...little he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 125 But half our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
| 1926 - 780 pages
...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; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
| Edwin Markham - 1927 - 402 pages
...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; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
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