 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 ! But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring,...  Arliss's Literary collections - 159 ページJohn Arliss 著 - 1825 - 358 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1842 - 796 ページ
...imperfect copy of the original. In one it is quite plain that the stanza, which closes with the lines — ' And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sulienly firing.' and in which the word ' suddenly' is often substituted for ' sullenly' was printed... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 ページ
...the hour for retiring, And we heard by the distant, random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. 6. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ! We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, '*. But left him alone with his... | |
 | 1843 - 368 ページ
...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...Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of liis fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But left him alone with... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 ページ
...done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, Of the enemy sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; W T e carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 ページ
...John Moore," by Irish clergyman and poet Charles Wolfe (1791-1823). The final stanza of the ode says, "slowly and sadly we laid him down,/ From the field of his fame, fresh and gory;/ We carved not a line, we raised not a stone—/ But we left him alone in his... | |
 | Chester Dodd Heywood - 1969 - 348 ページ
...Wolfe on the 'Burial of Sir John Moore.' We buried our fallen heroes 'darkly at the dead of night.' We heard the 'distant and random gun that the foe was sullenly firing,' but our foe's guns were not so random for they were placing shells near by that shook the still air... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 ページ
...the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with... | |
 | Zack R. Bowen - 1974 - 394 ページ
...which relates the last hurried rites accorded the British leader by his vanquished and retreating army: Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory — We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 ページ
...where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory, We carved... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 ページ
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow . . . 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down. From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone But we left him alone with his... | |
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