 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS LIBRARY. MY days among the Dead are past ; Around me I behold.... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS LIBRARY. MY days among the Dead are past ; Around me I behold. Where'er... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - 1847 - 176 pages
...the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...not a stone— But we left him alone with his glory! During the retreat to Corunna, his country sustained a severe loss in the death of Major General Anstruther.... | |
 | 1847 - 568 pages
...When the clock struck the hoar for retiring; And we henrd the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. " Slowly and sadly we laid him down,...raised not a stone — But we left him alone with bis glory !" The village of VILLA VELLID, in Old Castile, represented in the engraving, is situated... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - 1847 - 178 pages
...the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From tke field of his fame fresh and gory, We carved not a...raised not a stone — But we left him alone with bos glory ! During the retreat to Corunna, his country sustained a severe loss in the death of Major... | |
 | Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1847 - 180 pages
...Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line ; we raised not a stone ; But we left him alone with his glory ! After taking part in covering the embarkation of the army, the NINTH went on board the fleet on the... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 424 pages
...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,...not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory ! "DAS BEGRARNISS DES SIR JOHN MOOKE" — Nach Woolfe. Klein Glockenton, klein Trommelschall Erklang,... | |
 | 1848 - 460 pages
...That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of hie fame fresli and gory : We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone. But we left him alone with his glory !" By studying carefully this poem, the young reader will perceive every species of excellence that... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1848 - 532 pages
...Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory — We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory 1 The Retreat from Moscow. CHAPTER XL. THE EMPIRE, CONTINUED. The feign'd retreat, the nightly ambuscade,... | |
 | Richard Cannon - 1848 - 174 pages
...Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line ; we raised not a stone ; But we left him alone with his glory 1 After taking part in covering the embarkation of the army, the NINTH went on board the fleet on the... | |
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We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. 
