 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...And lit'tle he'll re'ck (if they let him sleep o'n) In the gra've/ where a B'riton has laid hi'm ! But half of our heavy task was do'ne, When the clo'ck/ struck the hour for reti'ring, And we h'eard (by the distant and random g'un) That the foe/ was suddenly firin'g. Slo'wly and sa'dly... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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 Of the enemy sullenly firing.1 Slowly and sadly we laid him... | |
 | sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1845 - 262 pages
...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... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 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... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1846 - 332 pages
...But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 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... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - 1847 - 176 pages
...him,— But little he'H recfe, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laidi 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 Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him... | |
 | Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1847 - 180 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 suddenly firing 1 Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
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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. 
