 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...him — But little he'll reck, if they'll 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... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 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 of retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun . That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 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 Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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... | |
 | 1864 - 370 pages
...bound him, And he looked a philosopher taking his rest With all his statistics round him. But half our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring, And we listened to BOB LOWE'S Armstrong gun O'er the heads of the Radicals firing. Slowly and sadly... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1865 - 166 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... | |
 | Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1922 - 560 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... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 pages
...the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid 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... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pages
...him. — But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. u 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. * Coronach Slowly and sadly... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - 1920 - 668 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. 
