 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll...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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk...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... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 422 pages
...bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, Aud we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of...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 pages
...thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hallow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! on the shore. On the 17th January, the French remarking this, pushed on their light troops to the heights... | |
 | Charles Wolfe - 1828 - 312 pages
...thought of the morrow. V. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! VI. . Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 650 pages
...thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hallow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! on the shore. On the 17th January, the French remarking this, puslu-d on their light troops to the... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 pages
..." 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." 7 But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pages
...morrow — 5 We thought — as we hollowed 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 ! 6 " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his And we far away on the billow! [head, " 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...5 We thought — as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — How theybe 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 nothing... | |
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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. 
