 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 Seiten
...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... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 Seiten
...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 upbraid him ; But little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where his comrades have laid him. Not the half... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 Seiten
...down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we... | |
 | 1829 - 434 Seiten
...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 '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. ' But half of... | |
 | James Kennedy - 1830 - 506 Seiten
...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 told the hour for retiring ; And we heard,... | |
 | Lyre - 1830 - 396 Seiten
...stranger would tread o'er his head , And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirh that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ;...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 told the hour for retiring ; And we heard... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - 420 Seiten
...thefpe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we -far away on the billaw !;.''• • » * * 6 "Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, ....upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleop on • In the grave where a Briton has laid him." 7 But half of our- heavy task was done, When... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 Seiten
...foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! ' 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.' But half of our heavy... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, • And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they '11 tal-k 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... | |
 | 1831 - 318 Seiten
...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 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... | |
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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, —... 
