 | 1826 - 494 страници
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the hillow ! 6. " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 страници
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow! ;— How that red rain hath made the harvest grow! And is this all the world has gain'd b nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | 1827 - 854 страници
...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...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... | |
 | 1827 - 554 страници
...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, But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | 1828 - 316 страници
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typhus fever which we had acquired, partly from coming Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 страници
...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...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... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 650 страници
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typl'"8 fever which we had acquired, partly from coming Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 страници
...and the stranger would tread o'er bis head, And we, far away o'er the billow. Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes...he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where his comrades have laid him. Not the half of our heavy task was done, When the bell toll'd the hour... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 страници
...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 ; 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... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 422 страници
...billow. 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. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard, by... | |
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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... 
