 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...  Songs of Three Centuries - Sida 121redigerad av - 1875 - 352 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1813 - 410 sidor
...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 the distant and...of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. THE MARRIAGE OF SIR JOHN SMITH. PHCEBE... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 492 sidor
...tolf'd the hour for retiring, And we beard the distant random gun That the foe was suddenly tiring. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...a stone, — But we left him alone with his glory. ART. 11. THESPIAN REGISTER. Friday Evening, June 20. Hero of the North. — Lady of the Lake. THIS... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 sidor
...toll'd the hour for retiring} ' And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. MR. MR. CAMPBELL'S ODE ON THE RETIREMENT :F MR. JP KEMBLE. Pride of the British stage, A long and last... | |
 | Mordecai Manuel Noah - 1819 - 508 sidor
...clock tolled 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...gory, We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, Put we left him alone with his glory." London paper,' Our captain went on shore with the mail, bat... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 sidor
...toll'd the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random guq, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. Sir John Moore, was killed by a cannon shot in the moment of victory, at the battle of Corunna, Jan.... | |
 | 1821 - 732 sidor
...we heard by the distant and random gun, That. the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we kid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory *. • The only intimation we have met with of the author of these exquisite and affecting lines, occurs... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 sidor
...tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...gory : We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, Bat we left him alone with his glory. MARRIAGE CEREMONIES OF VARIOUS NATIONS. (Resumed from page \\Z.)... | |
 | Soldier - 1824 - 518 sidor
...clock toll'd 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...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. X.IGBT DRAGOONS. ON the peace of 1763, this regiment was reviewed by His late Majesty in Hyde-Park,—when... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 372 sidor
...told the hour for retiring ; " And we heard by the distant and random gun, " That the foe was suddenly firing, " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, " From...a stone, " But we left him alone with his glory." The feeling with which he recited these admirable stanzas, I shall never forget. After he had come... | |
 | 1825 - 508 sidor
...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...of his fame fresh and gory: We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with hii glory !' THE TRIAL OF DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ.*... | |
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