 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reok, But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the... | |
 | 1844 - 328 pages
...talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him. But nothing he reck if they'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half our easy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard by the distant... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...lonelv pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pages
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...the conception of the bed and pillow gracefully harmonises :h that of the " warrior taking his rest." Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk o the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid...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... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...biriow. Lig'htly they'll talk of the spi'rit/ that's g'one, And o'er his cold a'shes/ upbraid h'im ; And lit'tle he'll re'ck (if they let him sleep o'n) In the gra've/ where a B'riton has laid hi'm ! But half of our heavy task was do'ne, When the clo'ck/ struck the hour for reti'ring, And we h'eard... | |
 | sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1845 - 262 pages
...they "11 talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes 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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 312 pages
...billow. Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; Bat little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where his comrades have laid him. 20* Not the half of our heavy task was done, When the bell toll'd the hour... | |
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Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 
