 We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his 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 o'er his cold ashes upbraid him...  Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women - Seite 4381885 - 648 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1868 - 298 Seiten
...sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought on the morrow. II. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed...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... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 Seiten
...thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, The foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head,...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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 Seiten
...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought...the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random, gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 Seiten
...• And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...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... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1871 - 394 Seiten
...moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning ! No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like...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 j And we heard the distant... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 Seiten
...lanterns dimly burning. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud we bound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With...In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done, When the bell tolled the hour for retiring, And we knew by the distant,... | |
 | 1871 - 476 Seiten
...lanterns dimly burning. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With...sleep on, In the grave where a Briton, has laid him ! F BOADICEA. 75 But half of our heavy task was done, When the bell tolled the hour for retiring, And... | |
 | Kensington series - 1872 - 296 Seiten
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought,...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... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 Seiten
...steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. , CHARLES WOLFE. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed...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... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 136 Seiten
...him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought...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... | |
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