| 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... | |
| 1927 - 490 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... | |
| 1884 - 918 pages
...Shakespeareauism.'2 And now, as it was said when brave Moore was laid to rest in his cloak, "But half our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; " nor, indeed, will it be unexpected if I hear from over. Will it be believed ? Bottom's " wren with... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pages
...him ; But little he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 7. 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. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid... | |
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