 | 1828 - 814 pages
...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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing.... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 426 pages
...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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 498 pages
...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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...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, And we heard, by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. When the clock tolled the... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...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 our heavy task was done, Wh«n the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe... | |
 | Charles Wolfe - 1828 - 312 pages
...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. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, - When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...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 a Briton has laid him." 7 But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, * And we heard... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...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...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 was suddenly firing.... | |
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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;... 
