 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 sidor
...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... | |
 | Lyre - 1830 - 396 sidor
...his narrow bed, And smooth'cl 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 spirh that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 sidor
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 sidor
...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...has laid him. 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... | |
 | 1831 - 318 sidor
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 sidor
...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ! But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought,...has laid him. But half of our heavy task, was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring f And we heard, by the distant random gun, That the foe... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 sidor
...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...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. A But half of... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 sidor
...the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we, far away o'er the billow. 6. 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. 7. Not the... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 sidor
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed,' And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting...has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring : And we heard by the distant random gun, That the foe... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 sidor
...his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow .' Lightly...has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, . When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the... | |
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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... 
