 | 1846 - 166 ページ
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er Ills 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 the distant and random... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1846 - 332 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 a Briton has laid him. But half our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 ページ
...they'll let him Nil illi cune, placida modo dormiat herba, sleep on Britones extreme quam posaere solo. In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our dreary task was done TSec media invisi pars est exacta laboris, When the clock told the hour of retir-... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - 1847 - 178 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 tke field of his fame fresh and... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 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 and... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 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 and... | |
 | 1847 - 568 ページ
...Lightly they'll talk 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 a Briton has laid him. " But half of oar heavy task was done. When the clock struck the hoar for retiring; And we henrd the distant and... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 ページ
...Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 7. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard,... | |
 | 1847 - 906 ページ
...of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him : But nothing he'll reck if they'll 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... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - 1847 - 176 ページ
...they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o?er lus c«dd ashes upbraid him,— But little he'H recfe, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laidi him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we... | |
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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;... 
