 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 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 tread... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 360 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And wo spoke not a word of sorrow ; But wo steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as wo hollowed his narrow bed, Aud smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 pages
...sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of to-morrow — « We thought — as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 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 smoothed down his lonely pillow, The foe and the stranger would tread... | |
 | 1854 - 576 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... | |
 | 1854 - 456 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... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1855 - 608 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 smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gaz'd 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, Thnt the foe and the stranger would tread... | |
 | 1855 - 458 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. 
