 | Freemasonry - 1844 - 402 pages
...And 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...retiring -; And we heard the distant and random gun That the fee was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...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...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring: And we heard by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
 | Quaver - Songs - 1844 - 552 pages
...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 heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and... | |
 | Printers - 1844 - 328 pages
...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 easy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard by the distant and... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold asjhes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 7. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the... | |
 | James Chapman - Elocution - 378 pages
...gone, And o1er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he1ll reck if they let him sleep on, In tin: 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 and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1985 - 1106 pages
...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 - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...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...retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1995 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | Arnold D. Harvey - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 350 pages
...our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning . . . But half of our heavy task was done When the clock...retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
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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. 
