 | Charles Wolfe - 1828 - 312 pagina’s
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! VI. . Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 650 pagina’s
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typl'"8 fever which we had acquired, partly from coming Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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,... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pagina’s
...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 ; But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pagina’s
...and the stranger would tread o'er bis 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'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where his comrades have laid him. Not the half of our heavy task... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 430 pagina’s
...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 ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | 1828 - 814 pagina’s
...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 ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pagina’s
...down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over 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; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 426 pagina’s
...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 ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 498 pagina’s
...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 ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pagina’s
...pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his And we far away on the billow! [head, " 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... | |
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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, —... 
