 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...— But little he '11 reck, if they '11 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 ; A.nd we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suLenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 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 random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 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 suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 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... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 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... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 360 pages
...him, — Bat 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Jiriton 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... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...earth. — (4) Shroud — dress of the dead. — (5) Martial — soldierly. — (6) Keck — care. — But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random (7) gun, That the foe (s) was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly... | |
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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. 
