 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! ert" Robert reok, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task... | |
 | Quaver - 1844 - 552 pagina’s
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'erhishead, 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 our... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Robert Wilde - 1844 - 674 pagina’s
...the nearest spot, but indeed the only one that the circumstances of that memorable night afforded. " Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes uphraid him ;" but if blame could have been attached to him, it may have been for accepting a command... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...the conception of the bed and pillow gracefully harmonises :h that of the " warrior taking his rest." Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...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 Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 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...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,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pagina’s
...lonelv 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...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.... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 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...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,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pagina’s
...and 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'll reck if they let him sleep on ( In the grave where his comrades have laid him. 20* and romantic glen, the rocky... | |
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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, —... 
