 | Old Humphrey - 1842 - 366 страници
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, But little he '11 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.... | |
 | 1862 - 512 страници
...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 toll'd the hour for retiring; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 страници
...gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid hirr^, — But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on Jn 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 distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | 1842 - 504 страници
...And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he 'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the gnue where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the (be was suddenly... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 страници
...billow. 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 Brilon has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 страници
...of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold asjhes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they'll 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 struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 страници
...gone, And o1er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he1ll reck if they let him sleep on, In tin: grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1985 - 1106 страници
...skin, showed he had been scalped, though still living. Chapter XXI "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'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him." Charles Wolfe, "The Burial of... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 страници
...That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the hillow! But little he'll reck if they let him sleep on, In the grave...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.... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1995 - 438 страници
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o 'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he '// reck, if they '// let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. WOLFE THE READER must imagine the horror that daughters would experience at unexpectedly beholding... | |
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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... 
