| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 páginas
...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 ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 346 páginas
...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 ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, IVom the... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 páginas
...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 ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the... | |
| W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 páginas
...dress of the dead. — (5) Martial — soldierly. — (6) Keck — care. — But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random (7) gun, That the foe (s) was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 páginas
...reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Jiriton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 páginas
...'11 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 || struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard || the distant random gun Which the foe || was sullenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly || we laid him down, From... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 páginas
...they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was dono, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foo was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the... | |
| 1854 - 398 páginas
...little hell reek if we let him live on, In the house where his wife conveyed him. But our heavy ta->k at length was done, When the clock struck the hour...sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we turned to go— We bad struggled and we wera human ; We shed not a tear, and we spoke not our woe, But we left him alone... | |
| George Croly - 1854 - 426 páginas
...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 ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the... | |
| 1854 - 576 páginas
...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 ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the... | |
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