 | Old Humphrey - 1842 - 366 pagina’s
...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...gone, And 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... | |
 | 1842 - 480 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pagina’s
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we, far away on the billow. 5. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reek, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where his comrades have laid him. 6. No... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pagina’s
...the stranger would tread o'er his head', And we' ... far away o'er the billow'. Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone', And o'er his cold ashes' . . upbraid him'; But little he '11 reck', if they let him sleep on' In the grave where his comrades' have laid him'. Not the half... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 pagina’s
...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...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'U reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; reok, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task... | |
 | 1844 - 402 pagina’s
...steadfastly gazed on the lace that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow,...o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on In the ground where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Quaver - 1844 - 552 pagina’s
...narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'erhishead, 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 our... | |
 | 1844 - 328 pagina’s
...That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er Ml 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 reck if they'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half our... | |
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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... 
