 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 436 Seiten
...dead, 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...o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; — • But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 Seiten
...of the morrow. 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,...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... | |
 | 1858 - 460 Seiten
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the de*ad, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought...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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 Seiten
...dead. 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Lover - 1858 - 394 Seiten
...dead, 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...o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little hell reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 Seiten
...we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down bis lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would...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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 Seiten
...sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 16 liar word, it is a digestion of what we receive, into...and without this no enlargement is said to follow. ! 20 Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little... | |
 | 1927 - 490 Seiten
...shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly...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 our heavy task was... | |
 | Mildred Hornsby Harrigan - 1928 - 316 Seiten
...with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed...tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line,... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 Seiten
...we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him . . . 5. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed...tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow . . . 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down. From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not... | |
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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 smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the... 
