| Charles Dibdin, George Hogarth - 1848 - 468 ページ
...and crashy crown, Tee fays and means I'll let you know, to get tee bus' ness tone. Vid my fa lal, &c. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant random gnu That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sad we laid him down. From the field of his... | |
| British minstrel - 1848 - 480 ページ
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes uphraid 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 hy the distant and... | |
| John Henry Wilton - 1848 - 408 ページ
...of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him." Wolfe. Our camp was now arranged, and all made as secure as possible. The force had suffered much in... | |
| Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 ページ
...But nothing he 'll reck if they let him sleep on, Lightly they 'll talk of the spirit that's gone, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, And we hoard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. When the clock toll'd... | |
| Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 424 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 a Briton has laid him. But half our weary task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and... | |
| Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 424 ページ
...foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, 20 And we far away on the billow. Bat little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half our weary task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random... | |
| 1919 - 496 ページ
...assimilate it without a qualm in Wolfe's noble dirge on the death of Sir John Moore: ' And little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.' but it is here infused with the passion of a sincere poetry, and merged in a foreign scene in which it... | |
| 1919 - 460 ページ
...talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, But little he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid nim. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring, And we heard... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1920 - 390 ページ
...him; But little he 'll reck, if they 'll let him sleep on In a grave where a Briton has laid him. 7. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...struck the hour for retiring And we heard the distant random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of... | |
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