 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow : But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 pages
...him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow : But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought...his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, The foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...him. V Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought...morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, .That the foe and the stranger would... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead,...thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd hia narrow bed, And amooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gaz'd on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought...morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smuoth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread... | |
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... misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. 
