 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...  Arliss's Literary collections - Página 159de John Arliss - 1825 - 358 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1827 - 854 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1827 - 554 páginas
...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, But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1827 - 500 páginas
...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. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring... | |
 | 1828 - 316 páginas
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typhus fever which we had acquired, partly from coming Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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... | |
 | Charles Wolfe - 1828 - 312 páginas
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! VI. . Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, - When the clock struck the hour for retiring... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 650 páginas
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typl'"8 fever which we had acquired, partly from coming Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 páginas
...and the stranger would tread o'er bis head, And we, far away o'er the billow. Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes...he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where his comrades have laid him. Not the half of our heavy task was done, When the bell toll'd the hour... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 páginas
...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 ; But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 426 páginas
...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 ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
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