 | 1825 - 456 pagina’s
...told the hour for rerlrtor: And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down. From the field of nil fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his... | |
 | Mordecai Manuel Noah - 1819 - 508 pagina’s
...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. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory, We carved... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pagina’s
...toll'd the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random guq, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. Sir John Moore, was killed by a cannon shot in the moment of victory, at the battle... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 pagina’s
...tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...gory : We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, Bat we left him alone with his glory. MARRIAGE CEREMONIES OF VARIOUS NATIONS. (Resumed from page \\Z.)... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pagina’s
...we heard by the distant and random gun, That. the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we kid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory...line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory *. • The only intimation we have met with of the author of these exquisite and affecting... | |
 | Renfrew county - 1821 - 542 pagina’s
...author concludes. With imprc^. LSS wlutanized by th2 importance cf the moment, v:heu ths earth was. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory, We carv'd not a line, we rais'd not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. IV. THOU ART NOT FALSE.... | |
 | 1823 - 448 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1822 - 418 pagina’s
...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. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carv'd... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 370 pagina’s
...told the hour for retiring ; " And we heard by the distant and random gun, " That the foe was suddenly firing, " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, " From...line, we raised not a stone, " But we left him alone with his glory." The feeling with which he recited these admirable stanzas, I shall never forget. After... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - 1824 - 153 pagina’s
...the clock told the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory, We carv'd not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. V . *• \ TROM MOORE'S... | |
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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. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring... 
