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. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring;... The Port Folio - Страница 2591817Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 496 страници
...stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! • ... » . . Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy... | |
| 1825 - 600 страници
...And we bitterly thought of the morrow. • We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...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. ' But half of... | |
| 1825 - 724 страници
...thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stronger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the...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. " But half of... | |
| 1825 - 710 страници
...his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread u'er his head, And we far away on the billow. "Lightly...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. " But half of... | |
| Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 606 страници
...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 our heavy task was done, When the clock told... | |
| John Arliss - 1825 - 382 страници
...pillow, [head, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his And we — far away on the hillow. 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 laid him. But half of our... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 страници
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we heap'd his narrow bed. And ciiiniitli'il ed for triumphal show? None ; but the moral's truth...gain'd by thee, Thou first and last of fields! king-m In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told... | |
| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 страници
...lonely pillow— Haw the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his And we far away on the billow! fhead, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, In the grave where a Briton has laid him." ' But... | |
| 1826 - 520 страници
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 6. " 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. 7. " But half... | |
| 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 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. 7. " But half... | |
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