 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 Seiten
...5. 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 his comrades have laid him. 6. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud we... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...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...sleep on In 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... | |
 | 1846 - 166 Seiten
...head, Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er Ills 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 our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant... | |
 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...the spirit that 's gone, . And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he '11 reck, if they '11 let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 Seiten
...fy 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 his comrades have laid him. 6. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud we... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - 1847 - 178 Seiten
...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...sleep on In 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... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1985 - 1106 Seiten
...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 Sir John Moore," vi. THE READER must imagine the horror that daughters... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 Seiten
...lonely pillow, 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 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... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1995 - 438 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 2013 - 249 Seiten
...they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him," 85. THE VICTOEY OF TALAVEEA. " Greatest, yet with least pretence, Great in council and great in war,... | |
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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. 
