 | 1842 - 414 ページ
...they'll think of the spirit that's gone, But still we will never upbraid them, — For little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Father has laid him. Soon was our hard and heavy task done, When, warned it was time for retiring,... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 ページ
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'U reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, Of the enemy sullenly firing.... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 ページ
...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...has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. When the clock struck the... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 ページ
...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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring: And we heard by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
 | Quaver - 1844 - 552 ページ
...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 our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and... | |
 | 1844 - 328 ページ
...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 and... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 ページ
...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...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing.1 Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 ページ
...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...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy, suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 ページ
...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...clo'ck/ struck the hour for reti'ring, And we h'eard (by the distant and random g'un) That the foe/ was suddenly firin'g. Slo'wly and sa'dly we laid him... | |
 | 1846 - 436 ページ
...the spirit that 's gone, . And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he '11 reck, if they '11 let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid...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.... | |
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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;... 
