 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 430 pages
...shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his 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 of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 498 pages
...shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his 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 of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...the prayers we said, We spoke not a word of sorrow, But stedfastly gaz'd on the face of the dead, And bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smooth 'il down his lowly pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er bis head, And we,... | |
 | 1829 - 434 pages
...shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. ' Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...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,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 pages
...we wound him ; But he lay — like a warrior taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him ! Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! ' Lightly... | |
 | Lyre - 1830 - 396 pages
...shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'cl down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - 420 pages
...wound him ! But he lay — Kke a warrior taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him ! , 4 Few and short were the prayers we said, . And we spoke...face of the dead, " ' And we bitterly thought of the morrot<*— • 5, We thought— MIS we 'hollowed his narrow bed, And Smoothed down bis lonely pillow... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...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... | |
 | James Kennedy - 1830 - 506 pages
...shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...we wound him; But he lay — like a warrior taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him ! Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...the dead, ». And we bitterly thought of the morrow — thought — as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — That the foe... | |
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By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. 
