 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 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... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 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... | |
 | Samuel Lover - 1858 - 394 pages
...upbraid him, — But little hell 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... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pages
...upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, III the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour of retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and... | |
 | D R. M'Nab - 1860 - 296 pages
...But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. ******* 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 were sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 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 Tbat the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
 | Sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1861 - 264 pages
...him, — Put little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has hud him. Bat 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... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 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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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. 
