 | Mordecai Manuel Noah - 1819 - 508 strani
...nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior takmg his rest, AVi'li his martial cloak around him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 strani
...billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's goirc, 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 guq, That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 strani
...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...But half of our heavy task Was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | 1821 - 732 strani
...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 onr heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; • And we heard by the distant... | |
 | 1822 - 418 strani
...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep or., In the grave 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 the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
 | 1823 - 450 strani
...task was done, When tue clock loll'd the hour of retiring, And we heard the dimaat. and random shot, That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, Prom the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; — Wts caiVd not a line, we rajs'd not a stone, Вал... | |
 | Soldier - 1824 - 518 strani
...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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 314 strani
...they '11 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...half of our heavy task was done, *' When the clock told the hour for retiring ; " And we heard by the distant and random g»n> <c That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 372 strani
...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...half of our heavy task was done, " When the clock told the hour for retiring ; " And we heard by the distant and random gun, " That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 496 strani
...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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing. Slowly... | |
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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;... 
