 | 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...little he 'lt> reck, || if they '11 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 random gun Which the foe || was sullenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...him ; Bat little he 'ii 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 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... | |
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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. 
